Constitutional Law

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Discusses two Supreme Court decisions pertaining to African Americans. Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown vs. Board of Education. Docrine of "separate but equal" established by Plessy ruling in 1896. Issues involved. Major concerns of African Americans regarding the ruling. Action taken by the NAACP in 1950 to challenge the doctrine and establish school integration. The racial desegregation ruling.

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"While the thirteenth amendment abolished slavery, and the fourteenth amendment created rights for the freed slaves, for far too long there was still the attempt to create an atmosphere of "separate but equal" which existed for nearly a hundred years. What is the background that led to the final "solution" in 1954?

The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states that
No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law (U.S. Const. 14th Amend.)."

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