Plessy Vs. Ferguson Case Analysis

“We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.” (Martin Luther Jr.). To have everyone experience the civil rights era people could see that blacks and whites were harassed by each other; verbally or physically. Today there still is not a guaranteed equality based on current news articles, but to see a day that is ultimately non- racist would be a true miracle. In the twentieth century, negros weren't allowed the same rights, equality, freedom, or education as Caucasian, such as the cases :Plessy vs. Ferguson, Bakke vs. Regents of University of California, and Brown vs. Board of Education. The case that pressed charges on Plessy brought by Ferguson thus showed one of the first, major, racial disputes during the civil rights movement. Plessy was a black male charged for being on a segregated white train car and presumed to have started a fight with other white males. The town Ferguson, pressed charges for being on the white train car, yet none was highlighted on the fight that occurred in the train buggy. The case went from the

Ferguson, Bakke vs. Regents of University of California, and of Brown vs. Board of Education. To summarize there has been many feats such as Plessy's case but it leads into believing what is right; equality. To sum Bakke's case people know that whites were knocked down because of the publicity blacks bring. People should be judged for how they act not what they are (minority blacks). The biggest impact on the civil rights movement is Brown vs. Board (for short). People see that people of different color are equal and serve the same education that white people get. But in all, "… It ought to to be possible, in short, for every American to enjoy the privileges of being American without regard to his race or his color,” (John F.