Samantha Meyer Professor Mettler History 146 27 February 2013 A Long Struggle and Fight Freedom is seen as being free‚ making your own decisions‚ independence‚ and not being under restraint. During reconstruction and World War I‚ freedom was seen as either easily acquired or a dream. African Americans were not born with the gift of freedom. During this time period‚ blacks struggled with gaining freedom. White people had a very different version of freedom and were not willing to give it up easily
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15th amendment. In terms of the 13th‚ the case of Dred Scott v. Stanford comes to mind. We see the court rule and state that Americans of African descent were not American citizens and therefore could not sue in federal court. Along with that we also again see racial segregation upheld in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson‚ as I talked about previously. Although there were no cases that directly overturned the Dred Scott case or the Plessy case‚ the fourteenth amendment paved way for equal protection
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The Brown v. Board of Education case is one of the most famous segregation cases that said states laws with separate schools for black and white students was unconstitutional. This decision also went to overturn the Plessy v. Ferguson case‚ which allowed state segregation. In 1951‚ a lawsuit was filed against the Board of Education of the city of Topeka‚ Kansas. The plaintiffs consisted of thirteen parents of twenty children who attended the Topeka School District. They filed the suit hoping that
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cases involving race relations. One prominent court case was Plessy vs. Ferguson. This 1896 court case decided that states had the legal right to segregate public facilities. In 1899‚ the court ruled that schools could only be erected for white children. Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka‚ Kansas was one of the most important decisions made by the US Supreme Court. This ruling on May 17‚ 1954 overturned Plessy vs. Ferguson. This court case ruled that the segregation of public schools
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divided over the nature of this case. Time is the only remedy to a plethora of solutions and it also happens to be the solution to the problem of segregation. It would end up taking the better part of a decade to actually enforce the ruling of Brown v. Board of Education. Even though the court had viewed society’s actions as unconstitutional‚ the mere acknowledgement of this wrongdoing was not enough to get the states to listen and abide by the court’s ruling. The court saw segregation as unconstitutional
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Movement‚ three Supreme Court decisions were made which had a large impact: Plessy Vs. Ferguson‚ Brown Vs. Board of Education‚ and Swann Vs. Charlotte- Mecklenburg Board of Education. The case of Plessy vs. Ferguson was a notable decision by the Supreme Court requiring racial segregation in public facilities. Passengers on Jim Crow carriage cars were considered "separate but equal" according to an 1890 Louisiana Statue. Plessy‚ being considered an African American without ignorance to the law‚ tried
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Cited: Brown‚ Rosemary. Overcoming Racism and Sexism-How? Ottawa‚ 1990 Dred Scott Decision. Independence Hall Association in Philadelphia. Copyright 2012 www.ushistory.org/us/32a.asp Macionis‚ John J. Sociology. Boston: Pearson‚ 2010. Print. Plessy v. Ferguson. http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0163_0537_ZS.html
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drink from certain fountains‚ and ride in the back of the bus. This is not what would be called very free. They were not even given the opportunities to receive a quality education or to vote. “With the 1896 Supreme Court decision in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson‚ the separate by equal doctrine was upheld‚ and the system of segregation in the South was securely in place” (Merger‚ 2012‚ pg. 169). When it came to getting a quality education‚ they
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is more active and participates in molding the policies of American society. It can be argued that during the end of the Civil War and the "Separate but Equal" era‚ in cases such as the Brown v. Board of Education‚ Baker v. Carr‚ Missouri ex. Rel. Gaines v. Canada‚ and Sweatt v. Painter. The more recent‚ Bush v. Gore case is a good example of judicial activism. Judicial Restraint is the idea that the Court should not place its views on other branches of the government or the states unless there is
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children have at one point or another in history been systematically held back for one reason or another. The reasons differ in the once beliefs that they were not able to learn or personal thought of not being worthy to be taught. In 1896 Plessy vs. Ferguson granted the states the right to uphold the separate but equal doctrine that ruled the land. This was a great lost to all those that held a hope those later generations would do better than those who came before. Education began to become
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