1. Josh Rosenberger David Gagliardi Josh Haluptzok
Segration Court Cases
Josh Rosenberger
David Gagliardi
Josh Haluptzok

2. Plessy vs Ferguson Case was held in 1896
Involved an african american herman Plessy. Plessy felt that the equal protection of his rights and laws were violated.
What he was refering
to was the segregation
of blacks and whites on railroads.
and in turn everywhere else
in America
Plessy v. Ferguson informational book

3. The Case
The court held that segregation was legal as long as the separate facilities, provided for blacks, were equal to those provided to whites.
14th amendment was intended to give blacks social equality,
but only political and civil equality.
Rarely were
african american facilities equal,
And this case ruled that there
Should be “Separate but equal”
Political cartoon on Plessy vs. Ferguson

4. Brown vs Board of Education
In 1951 Oliver Brown sued the Topeka Kansas board of Education.
After many appeals
the case reach the
Supreme court in 1954,
May 17.
This case overturned
the Plessy vs. Ferguson
Decision of “Separate but equal”
Protesters at the Brown vs Board trial.

5. Thurgood Marshall Born July 2nd, 1908
He argued on behalf of Brown and against segregation in American’s schools
He was a grandson of a slave
He became a Supreme Court Justice
Thurgood Marshall

6. Why Thurgood Marshall important
Thurgood Marshall was important because he was a black lawyer representing Brown in the case Brown vs. Board of Education
He won 14 of the 19 cases he argued
Thurgood was a man who fought for equal and civil rights.
Thurgood in his younger years.

7. The Impact
The Brown vs Board case had a wide impact on American life, it caused wide spread desegregation.
Eventually this would lead to equal and full rights and privledges to all African Americans.

8. Controversies Black Blacks had separate
sitting arrangements than whites
Blacks had to sit in the
back of the bus
Blacks and whites fountains
were separate.
Racist fountain