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Plessy Vs. Ferguson: Bakke V. California

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"We must learn to live together as brothers, or we will parish as fools" (Martin Luther King Jr). That is what was said from one of the most experienced leaders, at during a very judgmental time. Martin Luther King Jr was just one of the many men that changed America. During this time, there was a lot of harassment towards blacks. They were not considered as an equal people. The white American race at the time were very arrogant and prideful. People like Martin Luther played a big part in the civil rights movement. Some of the cases that effected the civil rights movement were commonly known as, Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Education, and Bakke v. California.

The court case Plessy v. Ferguson played a big part in what is commonly known as the civil rights movement. It had created many laws that enforced a process called segregation. Segregation was the act of separation because of a difference in the people, and in this case, white and black. The Plessy v. Ferguson case was one of the main events that started the …show more content…

California was the opposition to Brown v. Board of education. The case of Bakke v. California was about a student named Alan Bakke. He was rejected from the school he applied to because of few registry spots in the school. Then, it was publicly known that the school kept 16 registry spots reserved for minorities. To guarantee their spot in the school. Alan took the school to court saying that he should be able to take a spot, and that it was wrong to reject someone with good grades just because of reserving spots for minorities. Bakke fought with the school to get a spot, the court then took the action: "The California Supreme Court ruled in favor of his equal protection claim declaring that the admissions program was unlawful and enjoined the School from considering the race of an applicant. The judgment was affirmed in part and reversed in part" (Casebriefs). His case was later approved, and he received a spot in the

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SUMMARY In this landmark case Allan Bakke, a white applicant to the University of California, Davis Medical School, sued claiming his denial of admission on racial grounds was a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. The standing rule at the time was that race may be a factor in determining admission to educational institutions; however it cannot be the sole determining factor. FACTS OF THE CASE The University of California, Davis Medical School had been reserving 16 spots in each class out of 100 for disadvantaged minorities.

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Case Brief - Plessy v. Ferguson Homer A. Plessy v. John H. Ferguson was a US Supreme Court case between Homer Plessy, the plaintiff, and John Ferguson, the defendant. The year this case took was place was 18961. This case almost entirely deals with the Louisiana Law passed six years prior that provided “equal but separate” railway carriages for white and colored races. The constitutionality of this law was brought into this case as Homer Plessy, who refused to sit in the colored only rail car, argued it violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

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The predictions made by Justice Harlan were accurate, as he thoroughly predicted on what the ruling entailed. The ruling allowed for the ignorance of the amendments that protect the rights of colored citizens and allowed them to stay as citizens. In the Plessy v. Ferguson case, the ruling ended up impacting the country in the way he described with aggressions being stimulated. Colored people lost many of their rights that were granted upon the passing of the 14th and 15th amendments, and they were faced with violence and prejudice. A rift between the colored and white was created with colored being labeled as being inferior to whites.

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The California Supreme Court ruled in agreement with Bakke that the quota system was unconstitutional, through interpretation of the Equal Protection Clause: “no applicant may be rejected because of his race, in favor of another who is less qualified, as measured by standards applied without regard to race” (US Const.). UC Davis later appealed the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court, who officially published their decision in 1978: 5-4. The Supreme Court ruled that UC Davis discontinue its racial quota program, but also approved of affirmative action in some cases “in education that use race as a plus factor” (Janda et al., 480). The Supreme Court published 6 opinions with Justice Powell’s being the controlling opinion. The two main points of Justice Powell’s opinion were that although achieving a diverse student body is a valid reason to justify use of race in admissions decisions, the special admission program at UC Davis was unnecessary to achieve that goal and that Allen Bakke must be admitted to the UC Davis Medical School because the university could not prove he would have been denied admission without existence of the special admissions program (Cornell

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Before this case, people of the black community couldn 't go to college and they would settle for inferior. They weren 't even allowed to be interviewed for college as they were viewed as inferior as the titles they carried. Allan Bakke wanted to go medical school, but that was pretty difficult considering they didn 't even begin to consider letting him in. He filed a suit after his shocking revelation and the Supreme Court ordered the college to let him in, after which the college appealed to the court. The court accepted and the verdict came to this:"

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For nearly a century, the United States was occupied by the racial segregation of black and white people. The constitutionality of this “separation of humans into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life” had not been decided until a deliberate provocation to the law was made. The goal of this test was to have a mulatto, someone of mixed blood, defy the segregated train car law and raise a dispute on the fairness of being categorized as colored or not. This test went down in history as Plessy v. Ferguson, a planned challenge to the law during a period ruled by Jim Crow laws and the idea of “separate but equal” without equality for African Americans. This challenge forced the Supreme Court to rule on the constitutionality of segregation, and in result of the case, caused the nation to have split opinions of support and

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