Although many people felt that these laws were unjust, it was not until the 1890s that they were directly challenged in court. Ferguson that racially segregated public facilities were legal, so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal. Since the 1896 decision happened, the supreme court in Plessy v. White people and colored people still can’t use same room or things in public area like Threater, station, and school. All of amendments for stoping segregation were ignored.
At the end of ninteen century, segregation situations were popular and segregation laws were uiverse in the world. However, the Supreme Court reasoned that this act was beyond the scope of the 13th and 14th Amendments, as these amendments only concerned the actions of the government, not those of private citizens. In 1975, Congress also passed the first Civil Rights Act which held the “ equality of all men before the law.” This act called for fines and penalities for anyone found denying patronage of public places. The fifteen amendment which was protecting voting rights were intended to eliminate the last remnants of slavery and to protect the citizenship of black Americans. Futhermore, Although the thirteenth amendment to the United States constitution outlawed slavery, however, the government actually guaranteed the rights of citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including due process and equal protection of the laws after three years when the fourteenth amendment was published. Although the Declaration of Independence stated that ‘All men are created equal,’ due to the institution of slavery, this statement was not to be grounded in law in the United States until after the Civil War. Black children can’t take same school with white children, and they didn’t allowed take bus with white people either. Black people and white people segregation already continue for so long time in America history.
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