Question

Which of the following Supreme Court decisions forced the University of Texas to admit an African American student to its law school?

Answer 1

Answer:

Plessy v. Ferguson

Explanation:

Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.

The case stemmed from an 1892 incident in which African American train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a car for blacks.

Ferguson, at the Louisiana Supreme Court, arguing that the segregation law violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which forbids states from denying "to any person within their jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws," as well as the Thirteenth Amendment, which banned slavery.

Today we can use transportation and go to schools equally. This played a role in the Brown vs. Board of Education (1954) by the "separate but equal" law mentioned by Plessy and established that the "separate but equal' law is not equal.