Essays on Plessy Vs Ferguson

On January 31, 1865 the 13th amendment was passed abolishing slavery in the United States. Even though slavery was abolished this did not end discrimination for African Americans. States continued to construct laws making it harder for African Americans to be equal. In 1896, a...

The legal doctrine of “separate but equal is equal” was established in the Supreme Court case of Plessy v. Ferguson. Before this case, the Civil War ended in 1865 the 13th amendment was passed which ended the institution of Slavery but also did not guarantee...

In a quote by previous governor of Virginia, Henry Wise, he states, “The principle of slavery is a leveling principle; it is friendly to equality. Break down slavery and you would, with the same blow break down the great democratic principle of equality among men.”...

The Plessy versus Ferguson case was one of the many important trials in the 1800’s amongst many others. It was Homer Adolph Plessy going against John Ferguson for segregation on one if his trains leaving from New Orleans to Louisiana. This trial brought an eye...

In his article titled America in Decay: Sources of Political Dysfunction, Fukuyama, in his introduction, expounds on some of the early successes that were attained by the initiation of the US Forest Service. He states that prior to the Pendleton Act of 1883, appointments to...

The period following reconstruction was one of great regression in terms of racial equality in the United States. This era of Redemption saw many pieces of legislations and court decisions that diminished the rights of the recently freedmen, with Democrats taking more control over the...