Summary Of The Dred Scott Vs. Ferguson Case

Introduction- The population of a black male was 14.6% in 1964 and the white male population with a high school diploma was was 27.6%.It all started with the civil rights movement which was a movement so blacks can have the same privileges as whites.It was wrong that they had to separate people because of there color back then.
Body Paragraph 1-The fist case is Dred Scott vs Sanford which was a judgement for the slave named Dred Scott and his wife Harriet sued for their freedom in a St. Louis citycourt.It started when the court decided that all blacks could never become citizens of the United States.The people in the case was Dred Scott a slave who lived in Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before moving to Missouri the slave state
Louis Missouri entered into a restrictive law which stated that for a term of fifty years no property in the neighborhood could be sold or rented to any black or Asian person.On August,11,1945,Shelley who was a black woman who bought property in the neighborhood in Fitzgerald,However was not aware of the restricted law when she purchased.The other owners in the neighborhood sued and harassed her in the Circuit Court of St. Louis to have the court take away her newly acquired property to Fitzgerald or someone else at the courts decision.Vinson said that the Fourteenth Amendment says discrimination by State action but the people in this case were all individuals who had privately agreed not to sell property to members of certain races.Finally Accordingly State judicial enforcement of restrictive law based on race denies the equal protection of laws in violation of the Fourteenth