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1/17 - The Judiciary

Separate but equal. This was the rally cry for America during segregation. Although slavery was now abolished, this is how they would make it legal to separate the races, and unfortunately it worked.  The judiciary is the system of courts that interprets and applies the law in the name of the state. With the14th amendment already in pace, how could such a aw be passed into place?

NAACP’s Thurgood Marshall was a black lawyer that stood up during the Linda brown case, and argued how black schools were not as up to par as whites. When this argument was not winning the case, he began to question if schools could really be separate but equal, yet divide students based on the color of their skin. Separate but equal sounds like a contradiction in my opinion. How can you claim these two groups of people to be equal, yet refuse certain services to one group that is viewed as inferior to your own.

If the case had not been put on hold, and the chief of justice did not pass away, who knows what kind of world we would be living in today? It seemed sad if everything fell into place when the new chef of justice, earl warren, came into the case, and was against segregation himself. Thurgood Marshall is a name that all people should know, because he helped form the world we live into today, and fought for the constitutional rights of all African Americans. Thank God that the court ruled, “Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal”. Of course this was met with resistance, but segregation was eventually passed out, helping start the civil rights movement leading to the civil rights act to end segregation, as well as the voting rights act to allow the races to vote.

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