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This 4-page paper discusses how Brown v Board of Education ended up impacting U.S. law, particularly as it pertained to "seperate but equal" which was a hallmark of Plessy v Ferguson, the act it overturned. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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as much influence as the Supreme Courts ruling concerning Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. In this landmark decision, the Supreme Court effectively stated that there was no such
thing as "separate but equal" when it came to race. The decision changed the legal status of "coloreds" in the United States and opened the door for the civil rights
movement a decade later. To discuss Brown, however, we need to go back a little further, back to the end of the
war between the states in the 1860s. Though Lincolns Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves (along with the Thirteenth Amendment), the status of Negroes as three-fifths of a person needed to
be addressed. The Fourteenth Amendment was passed to ensure that all citizens of the United States, either by birth or naturalization, were assured equal protection under the law (Wolff, 1997).
The amendment was passed, originally to consolidate power of Republicans in the South - theyd hoped that by protecting the rights of the newly-freed slaves, that they could count on
their loyalty (Wolff, 1997). Signing of this amendment was a requirement for re-entry into the Union following the war between the states (Wolff, 1997). The problem was, the power of
the amendment was undermined (partly because the wording was so vague), and southern states passed new segregation laws and policies that denied black people equal rights (Wolff, 1997).
This came to a head aome 30 years later, when Homer Plessy was jailed for sitting in the "white" car of the East
Louisiana Railroad (Cozzens, 1995). Though the sharecropper passed for white, and indeed, was only one-eights black, he was still considered black, and therefore had to sit in the "Colored" car
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