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In 1847, local printer Benjamin Roberts applied to the Boston Primary School Committee for his daughter, five year-old Sarah Roberts, to attend a school located close to their house on Andover Street, a school that educated White children.
Roberts v. Boston, 59 Mass. (5 Cush.) 198 (1850), was a court case seeking to end racial discrimination in Boston public schools. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled in favor of Boston, finding no constitutional basis for the suit. The case was later cited by the US Supreme Court in Plessy v.
The case became known as Roberts v. The City of Boston. In their petition to the Massachusetts Supreme Court, attorneys for the African American parents outlined the circumstances believed to be unlawful.
Abolitionism, in this case, allowed Benjamin Roberts to embrace the family legacy of activism established by his formidable grandfather, James Easton, during and immediately after the American Revolution.
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In 1896, the United States Supreme Court cited the Roberts case as precedent to uphold racial segregation and the “separate but equal” doctrine in the infamous case of Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896). Sarah and Benjamin Roberts lost their legal challenge in the Massachusetts courts.
Roberts v. City of Boston: 1848-49. SIGNIFICANCE: The Roberts case established the principle of "separate but equal" and validated segregation in public schools, providing the basis and rationale for the United States Supreme Court's infamous Plessy v. Ferguson decision nearly 50 years later.
The Roberts Court is the time since 2005 during which the Supreme Court of the United States has been led by John Roberts as Chief Justice. Roberts succeeded William Rehnquist as Chief Justice after Rehnquist's death.
