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Plessy vs. Ferguson/Brown vs Board of Education

By spoole
  • Plessy Refuses

    Plessy Refuses

    Homer Plessy refuses to leave the railroad car and go to the all African American car. He was later arrested
  • Homer Plessy

    Homer Plessy

    Mr. plessy decided to appeal his arrested to the court for violating his rights.

  • Summary

    https://youtu.be/slDT-ac8Ft4

  • Summary

    https://youtu.be/Ldd0PLPG3E0
  • Ferguson

    Ferguson

    Mr. Ferguson proceeded over the appeal and denied it. He used the "seperate but equal: even though plessy was a free man.
  • seperate but equal

    seperate but equal

  • Things are not equal

    Things are not equal

  • After Plessy vs. Ferguson

    After Plessy vs. Ferguson

  • Seperate but not equal

    Seperate but not equal

  • Period: to

    Brown vs Brown

    The case Brown vs. Board of Education reached a verdict after 5 months of deliberation. They were in favor of Brown, which overturned the Plessy case. By overturning Plessy, the Court ended America's 58-year-long practice of legal racial segregation