Introduction -" I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... Therefore other people would be also free" is a quote said by a strong independent women, who caught for rights. The civil rights issue big part of history were two types of people were different and discriminated. The Supreme Court has helped to establish equal rights for all people: Dred Scott v. Sanford , Plessy v. Ferguson , Loving v. Virginia.
The Civil rights movement was no game it was something blacks fought for. One great example of this is the Dred Scott v. Sanford, this was a case about a black person who in the beginning of his life lived in Missouri to his owner. He later made his way to Maine which was considered a free state. He later returned
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In this case it 's shows you the phrase separated but equal really did more of the separate but not equal. They made it to were they were two separate fountains or bathrooms one for whites and one for blacks. All though they finally had got somewhere the blacks were still treated as if they were trash. For a long time it was like this, were even if they said it was equal it still was not. And In 1883, the Supreme Court struck down the 1875 act, ruling that the 14th Amendment did not give Congress authority to prevent discrimination by private individuals. Victims of racial discrimination were told to seek relief not from the Federal Government, but from the states.
The last case was in 1967 this case was the loving vs Virginia. This case says that it is a felony for a white person to intermarry with a black person or the reverse. This says that you can not marry a person of the other race or this could be punishable. This case was not big in the civil right as that most people married there own race. But when this did happen they would have to be separated and punished for have any relationship with the other race. Also The Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia held that the statutes served the legitimate state purpose of preserving the “racial integrity” of its