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Information websites

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  • https://www.wikipedia.org/

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

Casidy K & Matthew B

Facts

  • 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
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