The first case Plessy v Furguson main issue was whether laws, which provided for the separation of races violated the rights of blacks as guaranteed by the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Supreme Court of the United States held that the Louisiana Act, which stated that "all railway companies were to provide equal but separate accommodations for white and black races" did not violate the Constitution. This law did not take away from the federal authority to regulate interstate commerce, nor did it violate the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery. Additionally, the law did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment, which gave all blacks citizenship, and forbade states from passing any laws, which would deprive blacks of their constitutional rights. The Court believed that "separate but equal" was the most reasonable approach con

The second case is Brown v Board of Education. The issue surrounded whether segregation of children in public schools denies blacks their Fourteenth Amendment right of equal protection under the law. The main fact included: Four black children sought the aid of the courts to be admitted to the all-white public schools in their community after having been denied admission under laws which permitted racial segregation. The youths alleged that these laws deprived them of the equal protection of the law under the Fourteenth Amendment, even though their all-black schools were equal to the all-white schools with respect to buildings, curricula, qualifications and salaries of teachers, and other "tangible" factors. The Court decided unanimously that segregation of black children in the public school system was a direct violation of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. It rejected the "separate but equal" doctrine of Plessy v. Ferguson, 164 U.S. 537 (1896), and stated that this doctrine had no place in education. According to the Court, even if the facilities were physically equal, the children of the minority group would still receive an inferior education. Separate educational facilitie

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