Civil Rights Movement: The Plessy Vs. Ferguson Case

Before the civil rights movement was the separation of the race white and black within schools, public facilities, and transportation. The whites above blacks. The civil rights movement started the change. It was the beginning of integration and end of segregation. The civil rights movements started around late 1950s all through 1970s. This movement was very important to our history. In 1896 separate but equal was legal. This was called the Plessy vs. Ferguson case. This case happened in the post civil war area. Segregation of public facilities was widely practiced in the South. The separate facilities for Black Americans in the south were were usually of poor quality. The way this all started was that, in 1892, Homer Plessy took a seat in a white only train car in Louisiana. He refused to move to the train car reserved for black people. He challenged the one drop rule in Louisiana, which said that even one drop of negro blood was to be considered a negro. He lost and separate but equal places were made for whites and blacks The places were not really equal

Board of Education happened. This was impactful because it changed things for blacks and made things more equal. “Brown v. Board of Education (1954), now acknowledged as one of the greatest Supreme Court decisions of the 20th century, unanimously held that the racial segregation of children in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment,” (pbs.org). This case was the push end segregation in education. Linda Brown wanted to go to the white school because it was better than her school, but the law then said she couldn’t. The decision the court made was that separate places were not equal so they said she could go to the white school. “In the case arising from Delaware, the Supreme Court of Delaware ruled that the African American students had to be admitted to the white public schools because of their higher quality facilities,”