Thursday, May 7, 2009
Plessy vs. Ferguson
In the landmark Supreme Court case of Plessy vs. Ferguson segregation laws were upheld. These laws, commonly called Jim Crow Laws were not overturned until the 1960's. Briefly explain Plessy vs. Ferguson (try to do it in two sentences or less) and find out what landmark Supreme Court case overturned Plessy vs. Ferguson AND explain that case (again, in two sentences or less).
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Plessy vs Ferguson was an 1896 case in which the supreme court ruled that seperation of the races in public accomidations was legal. Homer Plessy was a man that was part black wanted to sit on a white railroad train but since he was part black they arrested him and he sued because it violeted his 14 amendment.I dont know what landmark suprme court case overturned plessy vs ferguson but i do know that plessy vs. ferguson led to brown vs. board of education. Brown vs Board of education was a case that stopped segregation in schools.Even though it was a violation of the 14th amendment which provided equal protection for all. The court still overturned it. Homer Plessy was only 1/8 white (his great grandmother) and 7/8 white but they still classified him as black.While Judge John Ferguson had once ruled against separate cars for interstate railroad travel (different states had various outlooks on segregation), he ruled against Plessy in this case because he believed that the state had a right to set segregation policies within its own boundaries.
ReplyDeleteThe Plessy vs. Ferguson Case established the “separate but equal” doctrine that pervaded life in the American South for over fifty years. This decision provided the legal foundation to justify many other actions by state and local governments to socially separate blacks and whites. I think the case that overturned it was Brown v. Board of Education. It was a landmark decsion of the United States Supreme Court which overturned the Plessy vs. Ferguson case in 1896.
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Period 5 :)
Plessey vs. Ferguson was the case that brought the “separate but equal” doctrine. Basically it was the idea that blacks and whites could be segregated, and that it would not violate the rights of blacks; As long as they had “separate but equal” facilities.
ReplyDeleteBrown v. Board is the landmark Supreme Court case overturned Plessy vs. Ferguson. Brown v. Board declared that state laws that would established separate public schools, for black and white students denied black children equal educational opportunities.
Amanda K.
Plessy vs. Ferguson was a 1986 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that separation of the races in public accommodations was legal. I t was overturned by Brown vs. Board of education. Brown vs. Board was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court, which overturned earlier rulings going back to Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, by declaring that state laws that established separate public schools for black and white students denied black children equal educational opportunities.
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Sources: direct quote from book and wikipedia
Plessy vs Ferguson, a 1896 case that made the "seperate but equal" doctrine. The Brown vs Board of education case,a law that states established un-equal schools, turned it over.
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TWO SENTENCES, UNLIKE YOU GUYS. HAHA.
Nicholas Sanidad Period 1
Plessy Vs Ferguson was a case about an African American who was sitting on the "white" section of a train. The trial itself was that Plessy believed that the segragation was violating his rights from the 14th amendment. The opposing side argued that separated but equal was not against his rights as an American. The trial was taken to supreme court and a judge, Henry Billings Brown made a valid point that in the government African Americans were equal, but socially not even close.
ReplyDeleteThe case that over turned it was Brown Vs. Board Of Education. It was a case that declared that black children had educational opportunities taken away from them because of separate schooling. It was a "a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of The Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution" This case was the groundwork for the civil rights movement and intergration.
Kara Beilman, PD. 8
The case was about a black man who didn't think it was fair that he had to not sit in the white train, due to the fact he believed it limited his rights the 14 amendment gave him. As everyone else said- it made the "seperate but equal doctrine"
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