The goal of this group is to examine how and when racial discrimination is against the 14th Amendment. When reading these cases, keep the following questions in mind: Racial Discrimination
1. If equal facilities are provided for all, can different races be forced to use separate facilities? How can we be sure that they are equal?
2. Even when the Court mandates de jure (by law) segregation, what can it do to end de facto (real-life) segregation? Is it the Court's job to force interactions between different races?
3. Note how the Court goes about overturning Plessy v. Ferguson in Brown v. Board of Education.Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896) Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) Cooper v. Aaron, 358 U.S. 29 (1958)