Political Science 2244E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Equal Protection Clause, White Flight, Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution
14 Jan 2015
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It is an issue that continues in the states. It constitutes a major issue in the history of the us. Plessy vs. ferguson (1896: louisiana law require railway companies carrying passengers to have separate but equal accommodations for blacks and whites. Washrooms assigned to whites and blacks, diners = whites and blacks. 1896 + 60 years = separate but equal doctrine was in place. In each of these cases, minors of the negro race through their legal representatives seek the aid of the courts in obtaining admission to the public schools of their community on a non segregated basis. In each instance they had been denied admissions to schools attended by white children under laws requiring or permitting segregation of race. 14 year old african american girl prevented in enrolling in an all white school in. Kansas: brown claimed shes being denied equal protection under the law guaranteed by.
