Separate But Equal

Separate but equal was a legal doctrine in the United States constitutional law according to which racial segregation did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment . The United States Constitution, adopted the legal doctrine in 1868, which guaranteed "equal protection" under the law to all citizens. ( “Separate but Equal - Separate Is Not Equal.” )
However, the law seemed it could serve “equal protection” adopting laws of separatism. Statements made by people of the Jim Crow era have said, “public schools that were designed for colored people were sought to be crumbling bricks awaiting to tremble.” ( Andrews 24) The colored schools didn’t receive the proper tax dollars to keep schools in tolerable conditions. While the private schools designed
When schools were on its way to integration massive resistance was a strategy declared by U.S. Senator of Virginia, Harry F. Byrd, partnered with his brother-in-law as the leaders to unite white politicians and leaders in Virginia communities for a campaign with new state laws and policies to prevent public school integration. After Virginia's school-closing law was ruled unconstitutional in January 1959, the General Assembly repealed the compulsory school attendance law and made the operation of public schools a local option for the state's counties and cities. Schools that closed down all grade levels are Front Royal, Norfolk, and Charlottesville then reopened because citizens there preferred integrated schools to none at all. The Prince Edward Foundation created a series of private schools to educate the county's white children. These schools were supported by tuition grants from the state and tax credits from the county. No provision was made for educating the county's black children. Some got schooling with relatives in nearby communities or at makeshift schools in church basements. Not until 1964, when the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed Virginia's tuition grants to private education, reopening Prince Edward County public schools on an integrated basis. This event marked the real end of
In court cases the black defendants rights were unequal to the white defendants for many years. Many cases against African Americans were not justifiable. In 1955, Emmett Till, a young teenager the age of 14, African American, was visiting family in Mississippi one year. One day Emmett and relatives with school friends roam to a grocery store. A casual walk that ended Emmett’s life because a story started going around town that he had whistled at local resident Carolyn Bryant a 21-year old white woman, who worked cashier at a grocery store. Word got out to Carolyn’s relatives and men started looking around for the boy. Two men found Till, beat him nearly to death, gouged out his eye, shot him in the head and then threw his body, tied to the cotton-gin fan with barbed wire, into the river.