Law Cases for Integration
Four important cases effectively shaped the laws for integration in school in the United States. The first case was Plessy v Furguson. The second was Brown v Board of Education. The third was Griffin v Prince Edward County. The last important case was Freeman v Pitts. These cases looked at how African American children were pushed out of the school system.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
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