Civil Rights Movement: The Plessy V. Ferguson Case

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"We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color (Maya Angelou). " This statement provides a clear understanding of how things work. It explains that people are equal, no matter what race, gender, or sexuality they are. During the civil rights movement people were blinded by the view that we weren't equal and that is completely wrong. Three court cases were a great involvement with the civil rights movement, some of them are: Plessy v. Ferguson, Loving v. Virginia, Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, they created a big impact in the civil rights movement and a bigger impact in history. The first case that made a impact is the Plessy v. Ferguson case. In this there was a black man who sat in a white mans cart on a train. This back then was against the law. Though this wasn't fair it didn't matter. When Plessy sat down in the white mans cart he refused to get up. When he refused he was forcefully removed and sent to jail. "was challenged by the conductor, and was arrested and charged with violating the state law" (Supreme Court of the …show more content…

Virginia case. This case was about how an interracial couple wanted to get married and Virginia state said no. This was unfair also. The Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution (Constitution) prohibits classifications drawn by any statute that constitutes arbitrary and invidious discrimination. The fact that Virginia bans only interracial marriages involving whites is proof that the miscegenation statutes exist for no purposes independent of those based on arbitrary and invidious racial discrimination (case briefs). Virginia had a law that said black and white people could not marry. At the end of the case the Supreme Court decision was that to have a law that rules against interracial marriage was

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