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This weebly website is the finished product of my 12th grade American Government Benchmark. Our benchmark consisted of understanding what The Supreme court is and how it works. The Supreme Court consists of a Chief Justice of the United States, and Associate Justices that are appointed by Congress.
With in this website there are two court cases that I have researched. The first court case I am presenting is Plessy V. Ferguson. There was a time when America felt the need to separate colored and white passengers on trains (and everywhere else). Plessy, the defendant, was mixed between seven-eighths Caucasian and one-eighth African American. Plessy was, imprisoned in New Orleans, guilty of having criminally violated an act of the General Assembly of the State. This case was argued on April 18, 1896
The second case I am presenting is Loving V. Virginia. On February 11, 1965, in the Court of Caroline County, Virginia, for the violation of the law that bans interracial marriage, Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving were persecuted. The couple was Mildred Jeter, a woman of African American and Native American decent and Richard Perry Loving, a Caucasian male. The Lovings were married in Washington, and as they returned to their home in Virginia they were arrested. After serving a 25-year sentence of banishment from Virginia, the Lovings went to the Supreme Court to present their constitutional claims.
With in this website there are two court cases that I have researched. The first court case I am presenting is Plessy V. Ferguson. There was a time when America felt the need to separate colored and white passengers on trains (and everywhere else). Plessy, the defendant, was mixed between seven-eighths Caucasian and one-eighth African American. Plessy was, imprisoned in New Orleans, guilty of having criminally violated an act of the General Assembly of the State. This case was argued on April 18, 1896
The second case I am presenting is Loving V. Virginia. On February 11, 1965, in the Court of Caroline County, Virginia, for the violation of the law that bans interracial marriage, Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving were persecuted. The couple was Mildred Jeter, a woman of African American and Native American decent and Richard Perry Loving, a Caucasian male. The Lovings were married in Washington, and as they returned to their home in Virginia they were arrested. After serving a 25-year sentence of banishment from Virginia, the Lovings went to the Supreme Court to present their constitutional claims.