Plessy Vs Ferguson

All men are created equal. That has been proven true in only fantasies with princesses and knights in shining armor. Even then, there are still discriminations visible the hero; always handsome, with blonde hair, stunning blue eyes, and being white is with out question. The world is full of stereotypes. If a person is black, he/she is in a gang, if he/she is Hispanic then they are automatically living under poverty and must have jumped the border; women must be weak. The United States has been known as the melting pot of the world because everyone of its citizens had to move here one generation or another. America's government has been trying to have its citizens become les discriminative. The Africans that were put into slavery stated
In Plessy v. Ferguson a person who was 1/8, black was arrested for riding the white car in a Louisiana train. This arouse the African Americans should be treated equal. This was settled by the courts deciding to segregate thing. How ever this time they were to be segregated equally. This ruling stood until the 1950's. When a young girl was forced to walk over a mile to a black school through a railroad switch back, Mr. Brown, her father, stepped in. He talk to the white school that was only seven blocks from her house. The school said that they would not accept a black student. This caused the case to go through the court systems up to the Supreme Court. It was ruled that separate but equal was not so equal after all. Linda was able to attend the white school in Topeka Kansas. A few years later, the Civil Rights act came about. The civil rights act said that the government must make it where all the people who qualify in the constitution are allowed to vote, and to vote safely. Affirmative Action was then put into play. This was a set of policies to help insure that discrimination would not happen in the work place. However, this cased many people to get rid of their good majority workers and replace them with some one who had to be trained again to meet the set quota. The government no longer requires a certain percentage for affirmative
Maybe if the US gets a woman as president everything will work its self-out. Mrs. Clinton is planning to run in the coming election. This seems surreal. The rule of thumb was that you literally could bludgeon your wife as long as the object used to strike was smaller than that of a man's thumb. One of the people many overlook is Annie Oakley. She was a person who stepped out of the normal lady expectation. She was a sharp shooter in the Wild West that became a leader to inspire others. Later on women began to take interest in the government. Women soon wanted the right to vote. In 1883, New Zealand was the first to let women vote. Margaret Brent was the first women to insist on voting. Wyoming soon lead the way for America allowing women the same privileges as men. Americans wanted to prove that they could to the same. After over three hindered years, women were granted the right to