Civil Rights cases

Question 1

Please V Ferguson

Answer 1

argued that jim crow allowed segregation and it was against the Civil rights act 1875, court ruled it was not and it was seperate but equal and did not break the 14th amendment, in reality in the south public places were separate but not equal

Question 2

Cumming V Board of education

Answer 2

Georgia county had continued to fund a white high school but stopped a black one, the county argued that it was better to use the limited funds for black education on primary schools, supreme court approved segregated but unequal schools.

Question 3

Williams V Mississippi

Answer 3

Mississippi unconstitutionally excluded black Americans from grand juries. Supreme court ruled that it was not discriminatory for mississippi to have voters to pass literacy test and pass poll taxes