Under O.C.G.A. section 51-7-60 can Robin Kincaid recover damages from Barclay’s Department Store when (1) the stores antishoplifting device alarm was triggered; (2) the clerk failed to deactivate the shoplifting device; (3) the security guard touched Kincaid’s elbow (4) the security guard escorted Kincaid to the back of the store (5) Kincaid was embarrassed by the security guard’s actions (6) asked Kincaid to remain in the room; (7) when the security guard left for fifteen minutes; (8) the security guard took a phone call from his wife?…
Before the supreme court case Plessy v Ferguson was put into action African Americans and caucasians had separate everything, due to racial discrimination. Plessy v Ferguson began whenever a man named Homer Plessy was arrested for sitting in a “white only” car. After going to court multiple times with this case, the supreme court set the doctrine Plessy v Ferguson in place. The doctrine stated that it was constitutional to have separate facilities for both caucasians and African Americans as long as the facilities were “equal”.…
On June 7th, 1892 a light-skin African American named Homer Adolph Plessy was removed from a train In East Louisiana and detained by Detective Calhoun for being an African American train passenger on a train populated with Caucasians. According to the legality of the arrest, Plessy violated Louisiana’s Separate Car Act of 1890 which legalized segregation of public transportation in the state of Louisiana. The Plessy v. Ferguson case was eventually taken to the Supreme Court and in 1896 the groundbreaking decision was made from a 7-1 vote lead by Chief Justice Brown to legalize and constitutionalize segregation in the public/private sectors under the notion or doctrine of “Separate but Equal.” The Citizens Committee of Louisiana or Comite Des…
In 1890, the State of Louisiana passed Act 111 that required separate accommodations for African Americans and Whites on railroads, including separate railway cars, though it specified that the accommodations must be kept "equal".…
In 1953, the first black student enrolled, as an undergraduate, at Louisiana State University. And in sixty-four years, several different races have had the opportunity to enroll and earn degrees from Louisiana State University, including myself. However, this was not always the case. There was a point in time where blacks and whites could not attend the same school, or even use the same facilities. The court decision that made separate facilities legal, was Plessy v Ferguson. It allowed for separate areas for blacks and whites, which forced blacks to create their facilities, like Historically Black Colleges and University. Later, in 1954, Plessy v Ferguson would be overturned, which allows all races to coexist in the same facilities today. I plan to explain…
The case of Plessy vs. Ferguson started when a 30-year-old colored shoemaker named Homer Plessy was put in jail for sitting in the white car of the East Louisiana Railroad on June 7, 1892. Even though Plessy was only one-eighths black and seven-eighths white, he was considered black by Louisiana law. Plessy didn't like this idea, and so he went to court and argued in the case of Homer Adolph Plessy v. The State of Lousiana that the Separate Car Act, which forced segregation of train cars, violated the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution. The Thirteenth Amendment was made in order to abolish slavery, while the object of the Fourteenth Amendment was to enforce the absolute equality of the two races before the law. The name of "Ferguson" was given to the case because the judge at the trial was named John Howard Ferguson.…
The case of Plessy vs. Ferguson started when a colored man named Homer Plessy was put in jail for refusing to move from the white car of the East Louisiana Railroad on June 7, 1892. Even though Plessy only one eighth black and seven eighth white, he was considered black by Louisiana law. Plessy didn't like the fact that he was considered black, he went to court to argued in the case of Homer Adolph Plessy vs. The State of Lousiana. The Separate Car Act, which forced segregation of train cars, violated the 13th and 14th Amendments to the Constitution.…
The U.S.A. was founded on the idea of racism when it first began. Black people were boated over from Africa and enslaved to help build it to what it is today. Americans used them to do all of their work without giving them anything in return and separated them from everyone else. In history there have been many cases that have made an effort to abolish segregation. Two cases that didn't just make an effort, but did just that were Plessy vs. Ferguson and Brown vs. Board of Education. They were related to each other as well because one changed the precedent established in the other. They also helped the country identify more with freedom than slavery.…
After the resolution of the Civil War, rich whites in the South scrambled to regain economic control and superiority. To prevent blacks and poor whites from joining together to challenge them, a series of Jim Crow laws that segregated blacks from whites were created (Cates 50). In this time, various legal decisions played instrumental roles in the transition to a heavily segregated south. Through the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision, the government legalized segregation which led to the establishment of myriad Jim Crow laws that stripped African Americans of their Constitutional rights.…
Before Plessy v. Ferguson, there were separate railway cars for white and colored people. Homer Plessy was convicted of sitting in a whites-only car. He had white parents, but since he had black ancestry he was considered black. He argued that the Louisiana’s Separate Car Act of 1890 violated the Thirteenth Amendment, which required all people to be treated equally under the law. Therefore, the Court upheld this act, however, Justice Henry Brown claims that the abolition of slavery did not prevent states from making legal distinctions between races (Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), page 511). Based on Document 4, Separate Accommodation states that railway companies carrying passengers, they shall provide equal but separated accommodations for the…
In America’s history, the white people saw themselves as the superior population and discriminated against many different races. The majority of discrimination happened to be at the expense of the Black community. Throughout the nineteenth century, society’s views on race continued to evolve; some changed their previous perspectives after personal experiences with the African Americans.…
In the sole dissent of the Plessey v. Ferguson case, Justice Harlan proclaimed that “[o]ur Constitution in color-blind and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens” (Linder, 2016). Yet trials in America have long included conversations about race, such as with the infamous O. J. Simpson trial. Legal distinctions based on race are also frequently made, such as is done when considering college admission. These conversations and distinctions are allowed because in reality, neither the Constitution nor the American justice system are truly color-blind. Nor should they be; a color-conscious Constitution and justice system allow America an attempt to make up for past sins, such as the ruling of Plessey v. Ferguson.…
Education is valuable to everyone. It is frowned upon if a young child does not finish secondary school or continue their studies further. During 1954, in Topeka, Kansas, the Supreme Court came to a critical decision that students would no longer have to be separated in school depending on race. This first dated back to a case entitled, Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, which first allowed students to be separated by race.…
For example, Rosa Parks, as an African American woman, was fined and arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat for a Caucasian male passenger. She believed public transportation seating should be ‘first-come first-serve’, and expressed a distaste for the way this practice was handled according to source A. Her arrest eventually sparked a movement that changed the United States. This movement was supported by a wide variety of people, and much to the transportation company’s demise, they saw a severe drop in profit. This shows that people, regardless or background of heritage, can make a change if they stand up for what they believe is right. This also shows that most southern state’s arguments against segregation were unpleasant as many people of color were severely discriminated against in a multitude of scenarios. In addition, several decades prior another issue regarding public transportation had a drastic impact on U.S history. A man by the name of Homer Plessy had purchased a first class train ticket. This train cart, however, was reserved for ‘whites-only’. Plessy was ⅛ black by heritage and he was put on trial for violating segregation laws. The state of Louisiana won the trial as they continuously debated the defendant’s lawyers statements regarding unequal treatment. This shows that the court, and judges, did not want to hear Plessy’s side of the story due to his…
student in the Topeka, Kansas school district. Every day she and her sister, Terry Lynn, had to…