Brain Pop : Segregation [[LINK]]

http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/ushistory/civilrights/


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this website is a sourcefull way of learning. this video basically sommes up my whole project

The "Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka" & Thurgood Marshall

"Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court, which overturned earlier rulings going back to Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, by declaring that state laws that established separate public schools for black and white students denied black children equal educational opportunities. Handed down on May 17, 1954, the Warren Court's unanimous (9-0) decision stated that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." As a result, de jure racial segregation was ruled a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. This victory paved the way for integration and the civil rights movement."

Mr. Thurgood MArshall, the Howard University School of Law gradutate, The LAwyer for this case which was the best case for african americans because the case in which the Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" public education was unconstitutional because it could never be truly equal. In total, Marshall won 29 out of the 32 cases he argued before the Supreme Court.

"Homer A. Plessy v. Ferguson Case"

"On June 7, 1892, a 30-year-old colored shoemaker named Homer Plessy was jailed for sitting in the "White" car of the East Louisiana Railroad. Plessy was only one-eighths black and seven-eighths white, but under Louisiana law, he was considered black and therefore required to sit in the "Colored" car. Plessy went to court and argued, in Homer Adolph Plessy v. The State of Louisiana, that the Separate Car Act violated the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution. The judge at the trial was John Howard Ferguson, a lawyer from Massachusetts who had previously declared the Separate Car Act "unconstitutional on trains that traveled through several states". In Plessy's case, however, he decided that the state could choose to regulate railroad companies that operated only within Louisiana. He found Plessy guilty of refusing to leave the white car. Plessy appealed to the Supreme Court of Louisiana, which upheld Ferguson's decision. In 1896, the Supreme Court of the United States heard Plessy's case and found him guilty once again.

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1995 Lisa Cozzens
http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/post-civilwar/plessy.html
Last modified: Fri Sep 17, 1999

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This was a very important case for african americans, this is on a need to know bases and also the struggle for blacks to have equal rights