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Supreme Court Cases: Dredd Scott Vs. The Board Of Education

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“We may have all come on different ships, however we are in the same boat now.”(Martin Luther King, Jr.). Segregation, racism, and slavery are just another word for when someone is to harass an African-American or a person of any color besides white. All of the court cases involving African-Americans were extremely unfairly ruled mostly because of how they treated and how the cases were ruled. Three Supreme Court cases influenced the civil rights movement by revealing how wrong racism, slavery, and segregation were: Dredd Scott v. Sanford, Plessy v. Ferguson, and Brown v. The Board of Education. In 1857 there was a court case between a slave(Dredd Scott) and the Supreme Court. This court case was Dredd Scott v. Sanford. This case was the beginning of many cases similar to it for example the Plessy v. Ferguson case or the Brown v. The Board of Education. In other words, all of these cases involved African Americans and their rights as Americans. During the duration of this case the slave Dredd Scott emphasizes, "that he was owned as a slave in a free territory,"(Dredd Scott v. Sanford). The judgement of this case was …show more content…

It had an effect, but it was not a positive one, the effect was unequal rights for African American children in the education system. Some African American children were not allowed to ride the school buses so they had to wall miles just to arrive at school and back every single day. In this case the judges admit: that the "separate but equal doctrine had no equality effect on education,"(Brown v. The Board of Education). The court decided that this was an unfair doctrine so they began to start reconsidering it. Eventually the doctrine was removed from schools and later from the entire nation. In conclusion, once again, there is no need for all of his segregation everyone should all live as equal

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