Faith Woodruff-Blinn HIST 5070 1 October 2014 Article Review #1 – “The Cost of Brown: Black Teachers and School Integration” In “The Cost of Brown,” Adam Fairclough attempts to uncover the belief that integration, due to the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), destroyed something valuable with the closing of black schools in the Jim Crow south. Many discuss integration in a celebratory manner, arguing that African Americans were making progress in the fight for equality.
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Plessy v. Ferguson: To begin you must understand the significance of the court case Plessy vs. Ferguson in order to see the true importance of it. In 1890, Louisiana passed an act named the Separate Car Act. The law stated that all rail companies carrying passengers in Louisiana had to have separate but equal seating arrangements for white and non-white passengers. Also under this law declared that those who violated the act were to pay a fine or spend 20 days in jail. People especially blacks
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explore the topic of: To what extent did Sylvia Mendez and her family have an effect on the Brown v Board of Education case? The Mendez v. Westminster Case will be the focus of this investigation, to allow for an analysis of how the actions of Sylvia Mendez and her family eventually resulted in the historic Brown vs. Board of Education Case. The first source that will be evaluated in depth is “Mendez et al. v. Westminster School District of Orange County et al.”, which was written in 1946 by Paul John
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Sergio Alvarado 02/20/16 Bailey 3rd Preface : 1. Why was the Supreme Court case, Plessy Vs. Ferguson, important? Plessy v. Ferguson accomplished the ?separated but equal?. 2. What was the impact of Plessy Vs. Ferguson on the lives of African Americans and minority groups such as Hispanic, Japanese, and Chinese? The separated but equal gave more rights to the people making it spread also to other races. Chapter 1 Rosa parks Rosa parks was a lady born from Louise McCauley. She is famous for
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Plessy v. Ferguson was one of the most significant cases of the Civil Rights Movement because of its negative results. Homer Plessy, in support of the Citizens' Committee to Test the Separate Car Act, challenged the state law by sitting in a whites-only train car though he was one-eighth black. The committee planned to challenge segregation in court in hopes that the Supreme Court would deem the law unconstitutional. Plessy’s lawyers said that his rights were violated due to the Fourteenth Amendment
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In 1883, the case of Pace vs Alabama involved an African American male, Tony Pace and a European or white woman Mary Cox. They were both residents of Alabama and they were arrested in 1881 because they violated the anti-miscegenation laws. They were both charged and sentenced to two years of imprisonment (Wallenstein, P 1998). They had been living together in Alabama at the time. The case went through the Alabama Supreme Court as well as the United States Supreme Court. The court eventually would
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Homer Plessy, a legally African American citizen from New Orleans, LA, challenged status quo when he sat in a train car specifically designated for white citizens (Plessy v. Ferguson 1896). The laws that forbid him from sitting in the white citizens' train car were known as the Jim Crow laws. First created in 1877 and named after a derogatory blackface character, the Jim Crow laws segregated black and white citizens in all aspects of life. For example, the laws designated specific drinking fountains
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Lomack v City of Newark 1. What was the legal issue in this case? What did the court decide? In the case of Lomack v City of Newark, the case was about whether having a diverse workplace was desirable. The legal issue of this case was that there was an alleged pattern of discrimination in the promotion and hiring of firefighters. Many of the fire companies were completely segregated and not integrated in with each other. The court decided that this was not an action that was done by the state
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Plyler v. Doe The Supreme Court case of Plyler v. Doe in 1982 was the argument between a Texan Superintendent of the Tyler Independent School District and the Supreme Court dealing with one of the illegal immigration issues in Texas with considering its bordering location to Mexico. The issue was whether or not the Fourteenth Amendment protected illegal aliens and their children to have school funding provided for them, or if they were not considered to be the implied people whose rights were protected
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Plessy v. Ferguson In 1896 the United States Supreme Court upheld a case that changed segregation. The Plessy v. Ferguson case declared that separate facilities for blacks and whites were constitutional as long as they were equal. This court case set the “Separate but Equal” laws. After this court case was unjustified the black communities became outraged. In 1892 a man named Homer Plessy was taking a train to from New Orleans, LA to Covington, LA. Plessy could easily pass for white but he was considered
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