Cases of Racism

This Civil Rights Act is a challenge to all of us to go to work in our communities and our states, in our homes and in our hearts, to eliminate the last vestiges of injustice in our beloved country" once said by Lyndon b. Johnson. All through out history their has been times were African Americans were treated poorly like the following (true) historical events that changed or altered the future. The following three are true Dred Scott vs. Sanford, Brown vs. board, and Plessy vs. Ferguson.these three cases all had one thing in common African Americans were being accused because of there color.

In Plessy v. Ferguson, the Court upheld a Louisiana law requiring restaurants, hotels, hospitals, and other public places to serve African Americans in separate, but ostensibly equal, accommodations. In establishing the separate but equal" doctrine, the Court said that segregation is "universally recognized as within the competency of states in the exercise of their police powers." In the sole dissent, Justice John Marshall Harlan -- a former slaveowner -- said the ruling would "stimulate aggressions, more or less brutal, upon the admitted rights of colored citizens. They were allowed to go in any public place because they saw that it was against the 14th amendment.this was a huge step …show more content…
Sanford, brown vs. board, and Plessy vs. Ferguson. None of these people were treated right,they didn't have the same rights even though it was a law for them to but they still were treated differently. In one of the cases a black male sued for his freedom stating he lived in a free territory. In another case brown vs. board they ruled that separating kids by race is unconstitutional, this decision marked the end of "separate but equal". In the final case Plessy vs. Ferguson a former slave owner stated that it was against the 14th amendment to separate people by there race in public