Plessy, 1/8 black man, sued state of Louisiana. He was jailed for sitting in the "White's" car of the East Louisiana Railroad. State of Louisiana found him guilty under the "separate, but equal" law & so did the Supreme Court.
Brown vs Board of Education (1954):.
Linda Brown, a black girl attending fifth grade at the public schools in Topeka, Kansas, was denied admission into a white elementary school. The NAACP took up her case, along with similar ones in Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, and Delaware. All five cases were argued together in December, 1952 by Thurgood Marshall. Decision in favor of desegregation came in two years, on May 17, 1954.
Richard Henry Lee (1732-1794), independence:.
On June 7, 1776, he made his famous proposal to congress: "that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States." He made the first move toward independence from Great Britain. .
Jefferson, Declaration of Independence:.
Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence in 1776, (which gave colonists right to rebel against the British government and establish their own based on the premise that all men are created equal and have the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness), & it was adopted by Congress on the morning of July 4, 1776.
Marbury vs Madison (1803).
William Marbury, sued Secretary of State James Madison to force him to deliver his commission as a justice of the peace. The critical importance of Marbury is the assumption of several powers by the Supreme Court. One was the authority to declare acts of Congress, and by implication acts of the president, unconstitutional if they exceeded the powers granted by the Constitution. But even more important, the Court became the arbiter of the Constitution, the final authority on what the document meant. As such, the Supreme Court became in fact as well as in theory an equal partner in government, and it has played that role ever since.
One of the most famous cases that talks about separate equality is the Supreme Court case Plessy vs. Ferguson. ... In the case of Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896), Homer Plessy purchased a bus ticket and insisted on sitting in the white section. ... Brown vs. ...
In the Plessy vs. ... In Brown vs. ... Ferguson Homer Plessy, a 30-year old shoemaker, was jailed for sitting in the "White's" car of a train in Louisiana. ... Therefore, Ferguson found Plessy guilty of refusing to leave the white car. ... The Plessy v. ...
That black man's name was Plessy and the Plessy v. Ferguson court case began because Plessy violated the Louisiana 1890 separate-car law. ... Plessy vs Ferguson had been unfair for many years until Linda's father was upset and wanted to change the problem that his daughter had to go through so much trouble for her go to school, so he was the one to bring the case against the plaintiff. This case was called Brown vs Board of Education. ... If it weren't for the Brown vs. ...
Brown vs. ... Plessy v. Ferguson said that, "separate but equal" concerning segregation of public places did not violate the constitution. ... While trying to gain equal education opportunities for their children, that were not provided for under the Plessy v. Ferguson decision, African-American community leaders took action against the segregation in America's schools. ...
The case of Plessy v. Ferguson involved a man named Homer Plessy. ... After Plessy almost every facility could legally be segregated. ... Brown v. the Board of Education did end injustices directly caused by Plessy v. Ferguson, but not the indirect things, just as hospitals can cure disease but not prevent them, or the way schools can teach you but only if you're willing to learn. ...
