"This case was the consolidation of four cases arising in separate states relating to the segregation of public schools on the basis of race. In each of the cases, African American minors had been denied admittance to certain public schools based on laws allowing public education to be segregated by race. They argued that such segregation violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The plaintiffs were denied relief based on the precedent set by Plessy v. Ferguson, which established the “separate but equal” doctrine that stated separate facilities for the races was constitutional as long as the facilities were “substantially equal.” In the case arising from Delaware, the Supreme Court of Delaware ruled that the African American students had to be admitted to the white public schools because of their higher quality facilities.

Conclusion:

Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered the opinion of the unanimous Court. The Supreme Court held that “separate but equal” facilities are inherently unequal and violate the protections of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Court also held that the segregation of public education based on race instilled a sense of inferiority that had a hugely detrimental effect on the education and personal growth of African American children."

     The decision for this case was made simply upon following the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. It had been agreed that since the white public schools had higher quality facilities that African Americans were to be admitted to them. It had not been fair or equal that African American schools did not offer better facilities to the students as where white public schools had only the best facilities. 

     This case is important because everyone should have access to the same quality of facility and education. No one should be denied upon their race. Education has been made equal to anyone and everyone who has the desire to learn. Racism is not something one should stumble upon nor struggle through in order to be educated. Everyone deserves an equal opportunity to attend school. 

What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?

"For the present, it is enough to affirm the equal manhood of the Negro race. Is it not astonishing that, while we are ploughing, planting and reaping, using all kinds of mechanical tools, erecting houses, constructing bridges, building ships, working in metals of brass, iron, copper, silver and gold; that, while we are reading, writing and cyphering, acting as clerks, merchants and secretaries, having among us lawyers, doctors, ministers, poets, authors, editors, orators and teachers; that, while we are engaged in all manner of enterprises common to other men, digging gold in California, capturing the whale in the Pacific, feeding sheep and cattle on the hill-side, living, moving, acting, thinking, planning, living in families as husbands, wives and children, and, above all, confessing and worshipping the Christian’s God, and looking hopefully for life and immortality beyond the grave, we are called upon to prove that we are men!"

      Douglass expresses that men of color are not only to be looked upon as "useful tools" because they too, are just as intelligent as any other man. Men of color are not to be disposed of. They can be just as accomplished as scholars as they are laborers. They also have families to provide for just as Caucasians do. Men of the Negro race were put on earth with the same purpose as Caucasians, and that is to live their lives in peace, love and equality. 

     I chose this passage because I agree with Douglass in every aspect. Everyone should be treated equally despite the color of their skin. I don't believe anyone is better than the next person. We, as humans, were put on earth with the purpose of living in peace and treating each other with respect and kindness. We are not to use each other as tools or to be harmed in any physical or psychological way.

A Lecture on the Anti-Slavery Movement

"The subject of my lecture this evening is, the nature, character, and history of

the anti-slavery movement....When I speak of the anti-slavery movement, I

mean to refer to that combination of moral, religious and political forces which

has long been, and is now, operating and co-operating for the abolition of

slavery in this country, and throughout the world. I wish to speak of that

movement, to-night, more as the calm observer, than as the ardent and

personally interested advocate. For, while I am willing to have it known, that

every fibre of my soul is enlisted in the cause of emancipation, I would not have

it thought that I am less capable than others, of calmly and rationally

contemplating the movement designed to accomplish that important and much

desired end"

Frederick Douglas explains his overall view on anti-slavery from an outsider perspective. Although he has his own experience as a slave, he also explains how he has seen others suffer being that he was able to escape at only 20 years old. He can feel other slave's pain because he also went through it only they have been through much longer than himself. Frederick shows the views from every angle such has moral religious and political forces.

I feel that Frederick Douglas had the right idea to speak as a calm observer because people want to hear the truth. No one wants to listen to an angry man. Speaking so calmly about anti-slavery makes people want to listen, to understand the movement and be motivated to also join. Frederick wanted to accomplish a movement that would succeed and end slavery.