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Plessy vs. Ferguson
Plessy vs Ferguson affected later efforts to achieve equality for African Americans. In 1896 when the Plessy vs. Ferguson case was brought to the Supreme Court the ruling was that segregation was legal so long as facilites for African Americans and Whites were equal.Segregation means seperating people of different races in public places and facilites. In most cases facilites were not always equal.Southern States spent less on schools for blacks then they did for whites. When I think of the case Plessy vs.Ferguson I also think of the case of Brown Vs.The Board of Education of Topeka Kansas. The NAACP (National Assosciation for the Advancement of Colored People) challenged the idea of segregation with the outcome of success in the 1940s. But, still in the early 1950s laws allowed segregation in public sch...
Plessy vs Ferguson affected later efforts to achieve equality for African Americans. In 1896 when the Plessy vs. Ferguson case was brought to the Supreme Court the ruling was that segregation was legal so long as facilites for African Americans and Whites were equal.Segregation means seperating people of different races in public places and facilites. In most cases facilites were not always equal.Southern States spent less on schools for blacks then they did for whites. When I think of the case Plessy vs.Ferguson I also think of the case of Brown Vs.The Board of Education of Topeka Kansas. The NAACP (National Assosciation for the Advancement of Colored People) challenged the idea of segregation with the outcome of success in the 1940s. But, still in the early 1950s laws allowed segregation in public sch...
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