famous court cases ii dred scott v. sandford (1854) plessy v. fergusen (1896) brown v. board of...
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Famous Court Cases II• Dred Scott v. Sandford (1854)• Plessy v. Fergusen (1896)• Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
By Kayla Gilbert
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Dred Scott v. Sandford (1854)- Dred Scott was a slave in Missouri.- Moved to Illinois (1833-1843) where slavery was
forbidden because of the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
- He went to Missouri and tried to sue Missouri for his freedom.
- His master claimed that no pure-blooded African American was an American citizen because of Article III in the constitution.
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Significance
• Only Congress had the right to give a citizen national citizenship.
• No one but a citizen of the United States was able to be a citizen in a state.
• The Court held the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.
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Plessy v. Fergusen (1896)• There were separate train cars for whites and
blacks. • Plessy was seven-eighths Caucasian and was told to
move to the car where the blacks sat. He refused and was arrested.
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Significance
• Plessy tried to say that Louisianna’s law about segregation was unconstitutional.
• The Court said that segregation wasn’t unconstitutional because it followed the 14th amendment. As long as the two race were equal, it didn’t classify as discrimination.
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Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
• Black children were denied access to public schools if white children attended there.
• The schools for white children and the schools for black children were equal. Everything was the same.
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Significance
• This was unconstitutional because of the 14th amendment.
• Separate but equal is unequal in the context of public education.
• The unanimous opinion sounded the death-knell for all forms of state-maintained racial separation.
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Works Cited• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DredScott.jpg• http://www.oyez.org/cases/1851-1900/1856/1856_0/• http://www.oyez.org/cases/1851-1900/1895/1895_210/• http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/weblect/lec02/02_05.htm• http://arkitipintel.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/segregation-
drinking-fountain-400x300.jpg• http://www.kawvalley.k12.ks.us/brown_v_board/images/
segregation.jpg• http://www.zunal.com/myaccount/uploads/pnl10-1.jpg• http://ww• w.oyez.org/cases/1950-1959/1952/1952_1/