essay questions

Question 1

Brown versus board of education

Answer 1

Struck down racial segregation in educationRegardless of original intent of 14th Am, the effects of segregation are unacceptable today“in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal”Next year: schools must desegregate with “all deliberate speed”

Question 2

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

Answer 2

14th A ensured “the absolute equality of the two races before the law, but, in the nature of things, it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social, as distinguished from political, equality” “separate but equal” treatment is enough

Question 3

1. The principle of equality has always been the most difficult of American principles to both define and adhere to. Compare and contrast Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) and Brown v. Board of Education (1954). How did the Court understand racial discrimination in each case? How did those understandings differ? Has racial equality been successfully achieved today?

Answer 3

brown versus board put an ened to segregation in schools because it went against the constitution the 14th amendment