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Plessy Brown
- Had to do with boarding a train
- Had to do with enrollment of schooling
- Both had to do with black segregation
- Plessy filed for a petition
- plantiffs were unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause
- Both affected the Fourteenth amendment
Facts
How Brown v Board started
The decision overturned the Plessy v Ferguson case decision of 1896,which allowed state sponsered segregation insofar as it applied to public education
People who attended the Court
Brown was influenced by UNESCO's 1950 Statement
in 1951 a class action suit was filed against the board of education of the city of Topeka Kansas, wanting to call for the school district to reverse its policy of racial segregation
- Issue was could the states constitutionally enact legaslation requiring persons of different races to use "seperate but equal" segregated facilities
- Both made their made their issue regarding a "seperate but equal" type of case
- Issue was is the race based segregation for kids was constitutional
Brown had to walk six blocks to get to her bus stop which was Monroe Elementry a black school and Mr. Brown tryed to enroll his daughter into the closest school there was but they got rejected and directed immediatly to the segregated schools
Cheif of Justice -Melville Fuller
Associate Justices-
Stephen J. Field Henry B. Brown
John M. Harlen George Shiras Jr.
Hurace Gray Edward D White
David J. Brewer Rufus W. Peckham
How Plessy v Ferguson Started
Plessy v Ferguson to Brown v Board of members Desegregation
Plessy had boarded a train for the "White's only" and he was asked to vacate his seat and to sit in the blacks-only car, he refused and was fined 25$ then later on convicted
- It was a landmark made for the United States Supreme Court
- It upholds the constitution of state laws, racial segregation, and facilities under the doctrine of "seperate but equal"
- The comittee of citizens took Plessy's side in Supreme Court of Louisiana