Plessy v Ferguson
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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. Homer Plessy was 1/8th American American. He spent parts of his life passing as white and living in a white society. During that time, railroad companies had separate stuff for blacks such as cars. Homer Plessy bought a 1st class ticket (where the white sit) and. he was arrested and fined.
At trial, Plessy's lawyers argued that the Separate Car Act violated the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments. The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery
“within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” The judge found that Louisiana could enforce this law insofar as it affected railroads within its boundaries. Plessy was convicted.
Ferguson, at the Louisiana Supreme Court, argued 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. Plessy v. Ferguson was important because it essentially established the constitutionality of racial segregation. As a controlling legal precedent, it prevented constitutional challenges to racial segregation for more than half a century until it was finally overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in Brown.
Established "separate but equal", also known as segregation, as constitutional. After this, Jim Crow Laws, laws that discriminated against African Americans, spread across the US and were heavily enforced in the South
Important Details:
· Person who sold the ticket should be in trouble
· The conductor used physical forces to get him off the car, but Plessy didn’t
· Majority of his ethics was 78% white
· He was a shoemaker
· He was born in the states
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