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Plessy v. Ferguson 1896 to Brown vs Board of Education 1954

The U.S. Supreme Court : the highest court in the american land. Their job: to decide the constitutionality of cases. But is that what they are really doing? Can we trust that their decisions are just? Two important cases in history can help answer this question. A 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case, Plessy v. Ferguson, made facilities and schools separate based on race.
In another case in 1954, Brown v. Board of Education, the court reversed its decision and said that separate was not equal. These two cases teach two lessons about the U.S. Supreme Court. Plessy shows that american justice system has failed at times to establish justice. Brown shows that even though the Court rules justly, justice isn't guaranteed.
Historical background of the first case
After the American Civil War (1861–1865), during the period known as Reconstruction, the government provided some protection for the newly freed slaves. But when Reconstruction ended with the Compromise of 1877 southern state governments began passing Jim Crow laws that prohibited blacks from using the same public accommodations as whites. In 1890 the government of Louisiana passed a law called separate car act. The arrest of Homer Plessy on 1892 was part of a planned to challenge the Louisiana Separate Car Act.
Facts of the case:
The case of Plessy v. Ferguson was a very important case in American History because it enforced segregation even making it legal, and made segregation a concrete reality for the people of the United States. It began with a man called Homer Plessy. Plessy was seven-eighths white and only had one-eighths drop of black blood in him, but under Louisiana law, was considered black. In 1890, Louisiana passed a law providing that "all railway companies carrying passengers in their coaches in this state shall provide equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races, by providing two or more passenger