The Dilemma Between Brown And The Board Of Education

Segregation has changed the nation and how people have been treated hundreds of years ago. Separation of race and isolation of color was a challenge that America faced. African Americans were removed from Caucasian schools, bathrooms, parks and more. Since they were a different color than Caucasians they had to go to the “colored schools” and “colored bathrooms”. The colored protested and fought for their rights and freedom. They made signs and marched in return of equality. In addition, there were many situations where segregation took place. For example, the issue versus Brown and the Board of Education and the dilemma between Plessy and Ferguson dealt with segregation. Fortunately, segregation doesn’t exist or happen today since America
In this action, Homer Plessy was a light-skinned African American, he sometimes passed as a Caucasian. He refused to sit in a JIm Crow car and this risk he took made him break the Louisiana law. Plessy also joined a group that was against segregation and purposely boarded a “whites only” railcar. He was trying to prove that the rail cars were equal and shouldn’t be divided by race. Unfortunately, Plessy was arrested for joining a “whites only” railcar while he was an African American. He went to court and he argued that railcars shouldn’t be separated from the colored people. Ferguson was the judge that was ruling the court when Plessy was proving his point. However, Ferguson and the Supreme Court ruled the law constitutional since the “colored” railcars were still working so they were “equal”. These laws are the 13th and 14th amendments of America. To conclude, segregation was involved in the case between Plessy and Ferguson and it started in
The Plessy and Ferguson issue wasn’t fair since he didn’t get what he wanted and they used the law against Plessy so he could not get equality for colored people to ride the “whites-only” railcar. The Brown and Department of Education situation was fair by Linda, Brown’s daughter being able to go to a “whites-only” school but it was unfair when they didn’t allow her to go to the school in the beginning. The first case started the act of education desegregation and the second case helped the end segregation. In addition, the Plessy was also unfair since he was arrested for boarding a white railcar when he was a African American. My opinions on these two cases is that they were fair and