The court case of 1896 was the year that Plessy v. Ferguson was settled. Establishing the term separate but equal after Plessy was denied his rights on riding a train. Even though this was a step closer to equality for all. In the long term, it was another way to stall and keep segregation in certain places around the united states. In the movie "Simple Justice" Thurgood Marshall, the main character goes through rigorous training to become a lawyer that could someday overturn Plessy v. Ferguson. He slowly approaches the judicial branch with simple cases of questioning the equality of adult education. With the goal in mind of one day getting toward childhood education. The attack on Plessy v. Ferguson began in 1935 when Thurgood Marshall and Charles Hamilton Houston”founder of the NAACP and mentor to Thurgood”. Also, there to help was a white man called Walter White assistant to the NAACP. The two well-experienced lawyers and
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One of their first cases “State of Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada” was where a black student named Lloyd Gaines was refused admission to the university of Missouri law school. There were no other law schools for African Americans in his state at the time. Thus meaning that he was being denied his rights of the 14th amendment. This case was the stepping stone helping Thurgood and Hamilton figure out what steps they needed to take for the law to understand the unequalness of separate but equal. On their way to enlisting equal education, they ran into a problem case. This was their first case dealing with childhood education and public schools. The case was called “Briggs et al. v. Elliott et al.”.This becoming the first of public school cases leading to Brown v. Board. In this case the parent Levi Pearson after asking to use one of the 33 buses
One of their first cases “State of Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada” was where a black student named Lloyd Gaines was refused admission to the university of Missouri law school. There were no other law schools for African Americans in his state at the time. Thus meaning that he was being denied his rights of the 14th amendment. This case was the stepping stone helping Thurgood and Hamilton figure out what steps they needed to take for the law to understand the unequalness of separate but equal. On their way to enlisting equal education, they ran into a problem case. This was their first case dealing with childhood education and public schools. The case was called “Briggs et al. v. Elliott et al.”.This becoming the first of public school cases leading to Brown v. Board. In this case the parent Levi Pearson after asking to use one of the 33 buses