Plessy v. Ferguson 14th amendment- equal protection Argued 1896‚ Decided-1896 Louisiana placed a law giving separate railway cars for blacks and whites. In 1892‚ Homer Plessy- 7/8 Caucasian‚ sat in a "whites only" car of a Louisiana train‚ and refused to move to the car for blacks and was then arrested. The Court had to decide whether the Louisiana law was unconstitutional under the 14th amendment. The Court ruled that the state law was within its constitutional boundaries. The majority of this
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Why was the Brown v Topeka case important for black Americans? In 1896 there had been a court case called Plessy v. Ferguson which argued that as long as facilities were equal‚ there was no problem for them being separate. However 90 years on‚ things were starting to change... Linda Brown was a black American third grader who had to walk 6 blocks and take a bus to attend Monroe Elementary School for coloured children. However Sumner Elementary for whites was only 6 blocks away and had better facilities
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Case Study of Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co. Andrew William Pence Liberty University Abstract Palsgraf was severely injured due to a blast that shook the railroad station. The unmarked package of fireworks that was dropped by another party boarding a moving train caused the explosion. The explosion caused large iron scales to fall on Plasgrof. As a result‚ Palsgraf sued the Long Island Railroad for the conductor’s negligence‚ whom she blames for pulling the commuter on the train. Which
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Plessy v. Ferguson In 1896 the Louisiana Supreme Court was challenged with a case that had the potential to tear apart racial segregation in our country. The central question that revolved around this court case was whether or not segregation amongst whites and blacks was still equal. The decision made by the court prolonged unnecessary social/racial inequality‚ oppression‚ hate‚ and violence in our country. The court’s ruling had immutable repercussions that greatly scarred our nation’s history
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1) Citation Palsgraf v. Long Island R. Co 248 N.Y. 339‚ 162 N.E. 99 (1928) Court of Appeals of New York 2) Key facts a. The plaintiff‚ Helen Palsgraf‚ was waiting for a train on a station platform. b. A man carrying a package was rushing to catch a train that was moving away from a platform across the tracks from Palsgraf. c. As the man attempted to jump aboard the moving train‚ he seemed unsteady and about to fall. d. A railroad guard on the car reached forward to grab him and another guard
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As a result of Plessy v. Ferguson‚ in1896‚ where the US Supreme Court upholds the “separate but equal doctrine‚” (Day & Schiele‚ 2013) Dr. King had to attend an all-black college‚ Morehouse College. This was the same college where his father and grandfather attended making Dr. King the third generation in his family to attend college. Dr. King would graduate from Morehouse College in 1948 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology. As well as attending college‚ Dr. King also follows in his father’s
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In the Plessy v. Ferguson case the U.S. court avoided the issue of the protection that citizens were guaranteed under the 14th Amendment. Instead‚ they just stepped around the issue by saying that it was reasonable for the states to have such laws. Plessy Ferguson case ruled that facilities that were separate and equal were not unconstitutional‚ but equal. However‚ the Plessy v. Ferguson case helped African Americans to step in the right direction. At the time of the Plessy Ferguson case the rights
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due to an existing standard of racial oppression. One of the difficulties regarding the Plessy vs. Ferguson case was the fact that southern whites were still not willing to view African Americans as equals because it threatened their belief
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unsupportive of civil rights. By the end of the 1890’s the more rigid system of racial segregation emerged with the problems between the Populists and the Democrats in the 1892 election and also with the Supreme Court’s decision in the case Plessy v. Ferguson. Before the election of 1892‚ the blacks had broken away from the Democrats and followed the evolving Populist Party. During the election though‚ the Democrats were very deceitful in order to gain back the votes of the black community. They used
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