Legal Issues Final Presentation
Legal Issues Presentation
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Above is the compilation of the Powerpoint presentations that our group compiled while researching desegregation for our research topic in our Legal Issues course. While we researched various cases within the duration of this course, we chose to focus on this issue for our final presentation. We were to present the important issues concerning our topic as well future implications. During our research we found that the most important factors to present to the group were the Constitutions stance on segregation, the states justification of segregation, quotas and bussing, and resegregation.
My portion of our presentation dealt with introducing three significant cases that laid the groundwork for the states' justifications of segregation. Plessy vs. Ferguson dealt with the railway system; however it established a precedent when it came to segregation. The railway was to provide separate but equal accommodations for blacks and whites. This was justified in order to provide public peace and good order as long as the decisions were reasonable. Reasonableness in this case meant considering the traditions and usages that they people were accustomed to. No matter how objectionable or blatant it sounded by a particular classification of people.
In the case of Cumming vs. Board of Education of Richmond County, more schools were needed for black elementary school students and to accommodate them, the school board discontinued the black high school and turned the building into an elementary school. The board advised the high school students to seek education in church affiliated schools. Upon challenge, the Supreme Court held that this matter was only an interest of the federal judiciary in the aspect of making sure that all citizens shared equitably in the tax burden, but when it comes to education and how its conducted, supported by taxation, was solely a state concern. Cumming was used to validate unlimited instancesof state discretion in what defined and constituted separate but equal.
Finally, in Berea College vs. Kentucky the Supreme Court upheld a state law that forbade any institution as a corporation to provide instruction to both races at the same time unless the classes were conducted at least 25 miles apart. These three cases established that the states could constitutionally maintain separate systems of education for blacks and whites, and in addition to this they could reach into private education and allow it to be segregated as well.
My portion of our presentation dealt with introducing three significant cases that laid the groundwork for the states' justifications of segregation. Plessy vs. Ferguson dealt with the railway system; however it established a precedent when it came to segregation. The railway was to provide separate but equal accommodations for blacks and whites. This was justified in order to provide public peace and good order as long as the decisions were reasonable. Reasonableness in this case meant considering the traditions and usages that they people were accustomed to. No matter how objectionable or blatant it sounded by a particular classification of people.
In the case of Cumming vs. Board of Education of Richmond County, more schools were needed for black elementary school students and to accommodate them, the school board discontinued the black high school and turned the building into an elementary school. The board advised the high school students to seek education in church affiliated schools. Upon challenge, the Supreme Court held that this matter was only an interest of the federal judiciary in the aspect of making sure that all citizens shared equitably in the tax burden, but when it comes to education and how its conducted, supported by taxation, was solely a state concern. Cumming was used to validate unlimited instancesof state discretion in what defined and constituted separate but equal.
Finally, in Berea College vs. Kentucky the Supreme Court upheld a state law that forbade any institution as a corporation to provide instruction to both races at the same time unless the classes were conducted at least 25 miles apart. These three cases established that the states could constitutionally maintain separate systems of education for blacks and whites, and in addition to this they could reach into private education and allow it to be segregated as well.