https://padlet.com/younesam/3hbcitmh8obf2h35 Ariana Younes en-us 2020-12-03 17:03:43 UTC 2024-10-06 22:31:29 UTC hello@padlet.com younesam https://padlet.com/younesam/3hbcitmh8obf2h35/wish/985015864 The Plessy vs Ferguson trial (1896), during the Reconstruction Era, is when segregation was at its highest peak, Jim Crow Laws were enforced, and African Americans were articulating their Constitutional rights.  While the case was taken to the Supreme Court, Homer Plessy pointed out that African Americans'  were not being protected by the 14th Amendment.  The supreme court had stated that the 14 Amendment only protects civil and political rights, not "social rights'.  ( Jury and voting rights vs sitting in the railroad car of your choice) The rights of colored women, men, and kids were becoming limited. From not being able to go to the same restroom as white people, to not being able to sit in the same classroom as white children. Some Caucasians protested alongside African Americans, while others accepted and endorsed racism and segregation. The conflict involving the Plessy v Ferguson trial is that Homer Plessy refused to sit in a car for African Americans. Obviously, because of the time period of when this happened, it caused an uproar, resulting in him going to jail, and bringing the issue to court.  ]]> 2020-12-03 18:21:17 UTC https://padlet.com/younesam/3hbcitmh8obf2h35/wish/985015864 younesam https://padlet.com/younesam/3hbcitmh8obf2h35/wish/987290617 2020-12-04 12:41:09 UTC https://padlet.com/younesam/3hbcitmh8obf2h35/wish/987290617 younesam https://padlet.com/younesam/3hbcitmh8obf2h35/wish/987291278 The Jim Crow Laws that were enforced at the time made it so that African Americans could not sit in the same car as Caucasians.   ]]> 2020-12-04 12:41:28 UTC https://padlet.com/younesam/3hbcitmh8obf2h35/wish/987291278 younesam https://padlet.com/younesam/3hbcitmh8obf2h35/wish/987296483 The Supreme Court ruled that the 14 Amendment could not protect "social rights", they also denied that separate railroads for colored people were inferior. “We consider the underlying fallacy of [Plessy’s] argument,” Henry Brown has stated, "to consist in the assumption that the enforced separation of the two races stamps the colored race with a badge of inferiority. If this be so, it is not by reason of anything found in the act, but solely because the colored race chooses to put that construction upon it.” ]]> 2020-12-04 12:44:28 UTC https://padlet.com/younesam/3hbcitmh8obf2h35/wish/987296483 younesam https://padlet.com/younesam/3hbcitmh8obf2h35/wish/987304037 Not until the Landmark case "Brown v Board of Education" (1954) , during the civil rights movement, that a bulk of the Supreme Court would essentially agree with Harlan's opinion in Plessy v Ferguson.  

"Writing the majority opinion in that 1954 case, Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote that “the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place” in public education, calling segregated schools “inherently unequal,” and declaring that the plaintiffs in the Brown case were being “deprived of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the 14th Amendment.”    -

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/plessy-v-ferguson#section_3 ]]> 2020-12-04 12:48:43 UTC https://padlet.com/younesam/3hbcitmh8obf2h35/wish/987304037