Racism In The 19th Century
Racism, it started so long ago and still goes on now. It's just stupid, hating people because of their color is wrong and it doesn't matter which color does the hating, it just plain wrong. It's not about being black or white because we are all human. Through out trials people, found out their flaws in jury cases such as Dred Scott v. Sanford, Plessy v. Ferguson, and Brown v. Board of Education ,with people fighting for justice ,freedom ,rights and beliefs.
In 1846 a slave named Dred Scott and his wife, where sued for their freedom in St. Louis city court. "The odds were in their favor since they had lived with their owner, an army surgeon, at Fort Snelling, then free in territory of Wisconsin". The Scotts' freedom could be established on the grounds that they had for extended periods in a free territory and were then returned to a slave state.Chief Justice Roger B. Taney read the majority opinion of the Court, which stated that slaves were not citizens of the United States and could not expect any protection from the Federal Government or the courts and congress had no authority to ban slavery. …show more content…
Ferguson was how racial discrimination was attacked on broad by the Civil Rights Act. This made it a crime for a person to deny “the full and equal enjoyment of any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges". Congress said to prevent discrimination by individuals. Victims of racial discrimination were told to seek relief not from the Federal Government, but from the states. Until the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education and congressional civil rights acts of the systematic segregation under state law was
In 1846 a slave named Dred Scott and his wife, where sued for their freedom in St. Louis city court. "The odds were in their favor since they had lived with their owner, an army surgeon, at Fort Snelling, then free in territory of Wisconsin". The Scotts' freedom could be established on the grounds that they had for extended periods in a free territory and were then returned to a slave state.Chief Justice Roger B. Taney read the majority opinion of the Court, which stated that slaves were not citizens of the United States and could not expect any protection from the Federal Government or the courts and congress had no authority to ban slavery. …show more content…
Ferguson was how racial discrimination was attacked on broad by the Civil Rights Act. This made it a crime for a person to deny “the full and equal enjoyment of any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges". Congress said to prevent discrimination by individuals. Victims of racial discrimination were told to seek relief not from the Federal Government, but from the states. Until the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education and congressional civil rights acts of the systematic segregation under state law was