Plessy v. Furguson
The Supreme Court at first said that it was the states' business and the federal government could not interfere. Later on, the Supreme Court made racial segregation illegal.
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The U.S. Supreme court reversed a Louisiana State Law that prohibited racial segregation in public carriers.
It began when the Supreme Court first approved of de jure segregation inPlessyv.Ferguson(1896)
It began in 1896 when the Supreme Court ruled in Plessy vs Ferguson that racial segregation was constitutional.
in plessy, the supreme court ruled that the clause allowed racial segregation; in the brown, it ruled that clause did not allow segregation
in plessy, the supreme court ruled that the clause allowed racial segregation; in the brown, it ruled that clause did not allow segregation
legally sanctioned racial segregation
The laws that allowed segregation were called Jim Crow Laws. They were justified under the doctrine of 'separate but equal.'
Before the segregation cases, the Supreme Court was not on the side of de-segregation. The standing doctrine was the doctrine of separate but equal.
The Supreme Court case Brown vs. Board of Education was about racial segregation in public schools. The court cased declared this segregation unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court at first said that it was the states' business and the federal government could not interfere. Later on, the Supreme Court made racial segregation illegal.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. The decision effectively overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896, which allowed state-sponsored segregation, insofar as it applied to public education and in turn resulted in segregation generally.
Segregation in schools was officially outlawed by the Supreme Court in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision.
One argument about segregation made by Thurgood Marshall before the Supreme Court was that African American students suffered damage from being treated differently.