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Homer Plessy

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Racism has been around forever and it been passed down for generations, so to stop this, this generation has to teach their kids not to be racist, and teach them to be nicer to people, not because of their race, religion or gender, but because everyone needs to feel accepted in their community. As stated earlier, this type of ignorance has been around for a long time. Back when America was first starting to become a country, Africans were slaves being sold by whites and beaten to death if they tried to run away. Even after their freedom, they still weren 't being treated like humans. White people always treated them as if they weren 't human. Even today, white people are still treating people of different races differently, including the law. Few people are …show more content…

Beginning with different train cars to separate race, Homer Plessy sat in a car that was for whites only. He was challenged and harassed by the conductor, then later arrested for breaking the law. The majority vote was that they could not put the races together. It wasn 't until later that the segregation under state law was ended, but the judgment wasn 't an immediate response for Plessy.

Segregation led to whites and blacks not being able to marry. The state argued that they couldn 't take away the right to marry because of their race. The fact that Virginia only prohibited marriage between whites and blacks is proof that thus alone caused the discrimination. Finally, J. Stewart argued that this state law wasn 't valid, which causes the act of discrimination.

Many Supreme Court cases have experienced this, and has had the biggest impact on Civil Rights and Equality: Dred Scott vs. Sanford, Plessy v. Ferguson, and Loving v. Virginia. Many people have been affected by inequality of gender, race, and religion. This needs to stop, nothing is getting better Roth now, but it can in the future. The children in the future can be taught differently by their parents, so they can pass it down to their

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