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The intent of this amendment was to recognize full equality for black people in the wake of the Civil War and emancipation.It gave black people qual protection under the law.?They could now vote, own a business and own property.Even after the amendment was ratified, segregation was still in place, and many states and businesses fought integration by creating special services and facilities for black people.Thanks to a Supreme Court ruling almost 25 years later, the 14th Amendment remained limited in scope. In Plessy v. Ferguson, the court was somehow able to twist and turn legal arguments to create a principle known as eparate but equal.?It allowed states and other governmental agencies to keep segregation in place as long as they offered eparate but equal?facilities and services for black people.Thus began a period of segregated schools, railroad cars (which was the basis for the case that established the new legal principle), restrooms, and even hospitals.Seven justices agreed with the Plessy decision. Only one voted against.Justice John Harlan said in his dissent, he present decision, it may well be apprehended, will not only stimulate aggressions, more or less brutal and irritating, upon the admitted rights of colored citizens, but will encourage the belief that it is possible, by means of state enactments, to defeat the beneficent purposes which the people of the United States had in view when they adopted the recent amendments of the Constitution.ustice David Brewer didn participate in the decision. Can you imagine that happening in 2015? But Brewer didn just sit it out. His daughter untimely death took him back to Leavenworth, Kansas, while the arguments were made in the case.With seven votes in favor, his vote wouldn have mattered anyway. 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The impact is greater when it has the sanction of the law, for the policy of separating the races is usually interpreted as denoting the inferiority of the Negro group... Any language in contrary to this finding is rejected. We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of eparate but equal?has no place. 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