Plessy Vs. Ferguson Case: Brown Versus The Topeka Board Of Education

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Social equality has become a hot topic in the United States as of late. It is a debate that we have had since the United States was ever conceived. A place where everyone can be equal. Unless your not white. Then two landmark cases happened which were Plessy versus Ferguson, and Brown Versus the Topeka Board of Education. These are some of the most influential cases of the history of the United States, and here’s why.

In the Plessy V. Ferguson case the defendant Plessy stated that his rights were being violated by the separate but equal doctrine stating. That the conditions of black utility’s such as in Plessy’s case the conditions of a railroad car were not equal to the white equivalent. The case went to he Supreme Court, and in a 7-1 decision in the favor of Ferguson. The court negated Plessy’s 13th and 14th amendment rights stating …show more content…
They also said that “ if another race is inferior due to social standards then the court cannot do anything to help that” basically say that racists will be racists.

The decision in the Plessy Versus Ferguson case had a very important role in the Brown case but we will get to that later, right now we will focus on the Plessy cases decisions of the minority, and the majority. First the majority decision. One of the opinions given by Justice Brown said This case brought up the ethicality of wether a law passed in Louisiana saying that African Americans and whites shall have separate but
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