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Rich Tapestry: The Supreme Court Case
"We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color. According to "constitutional amendments abolished slavery, made the former slaves citizens and gave all men the right to vote regardless of race. Congress expanded the act and also passed additional legislation aimed at bringing equality to African Americans.The Supreme Court has made many decision to impact, Dred Scott vs Sanford, Shelley vs. Kraemer, and plessey vs. Ferguson court cases.

The Dred Scott vs. Sanford court case was impacted by the Supreme Court. According to OUR DOCUMENTS "Dred Scott was a slave in Missouri, sued for his freedom on the grounds that he had lived
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Kraemer court case was impacted by the Supreme Court. According to CASE BELIEFS, "the Court ruled that judicial enforcement of a racially restrictive property covenant is a violation of the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment." This was in 1948 in St. Louis when he bought a house in a neighborhood wear for 5 years they would not be sold or rented to any Asians or blacks. Shelley bought a House in Fitzgerald where no one know that he bought it and soon or later the home owners in the neighborhood had noticed that a black person is staying in a house in the white neighborhood. They flipped out and harass towards them to try to sue the circuit court of St. Louis. The circuit court of St. Louis has declined to enforce what the home owners wanted to do about the issue. According to the website CASE BELIEF "The case was then appealed to the Missouri Supreme Court which reversed the Circuit Court’s decision and held that the provisions of the covenant were enforceable against Petitioner. Petitioners then appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court." The home owners had appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The 14th amendment was used by the court to rule the case because it was violating of the equal protection clause (Shelley vs. …show more content…
Ferguson court case was impacted by the Supreme Court. According to OUR DOCUMENTS "the Court upheld a Louisiana law requiring restaurants, hotels, hospitals, and other public places to serve African Americans in separate, but ostensibly equal, accommodations." The case was about equal but separate accommodations for a white and colored race. The whites showed ignorance towards equality with the colored. It was in 1896 and it happened in Louisiana, the thing was colored could not eat or stay or ride anything that the whites were at or eating at. It was unfair for the colored to not be treated as the same way the white were to be treated. According to OUR DOCUMENTS, "In 1883, the Supreme Court struck down the 1875 act, ruling that the 14th Amendment did not give Congress authority to prevent discrimination by private individuals." They immediate struck down the case because of the 14th amendment and how it pretty much explained and went right in detailed to what was happening in the court case. When it was brought to the Supreme Court to be sealed with the looked back on the Louisiana Jim Crow laws which happened helped his court case (Plessy vs.

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