Plessy

1. Plessy v. Ferguson was decided after a period of time where African Americans were granted more rights and freedoms under the law. During Reconstruction (1865-1877), African Americans were allowed to hold public office and vote. Some areas of the South had African American communities that were economically sufficient. After reconstruction ended, the "white man's government" resumed upon the withdrawal of Northern troops and the assistance of the Freedmen's Bureau. Jim Crow laws were passed

Once upon a time, there was a man named Homer Plessy. He was born during the civil war in New Orleans and enjoyed many freedoms growing up, however, those freedoms disappear after Reconstruction Era ended in 1877. Jim Crow Laws legalize racial segregation throughout the South. In Louisiana, the Separate Car Act forced black and white people to sit in separate railroad cars. Homer Plessy was one eights black and under the Louisiana Law he was classified as black, therefore, he would have

immediately after the Plessy decision, but that it took some time. He stated, “In the early years of the twentieth century, it was becoming clear that the Negro would be effectively disfranchised throughout the South, … and that neither equality nor aspiration for equality in any department of life were for him “ (6-7). The Plessy decision was made in 1896, but it took some time before Americans chose to segregate every aspect of their lives from the African Americans. This shows that Plessy vs. Ferguson

PLESSY V. FERGUSON The case between Homer Plessy and Judge John H. Ferguson began when “Louisiana enacted the Separate Car Act, which required separate railway cars for blacks and whites,” according to the article “Plessy v. Ferguson” by Oyez. Plessy’s reaction towards this act was to challenge it. Encyclopedia Britannica’s article “Plessy v. Ferguson” states that, like Plessy, there was “a group of Creole professionals in New Orleans [who] formed the Citizens’ Committee to Test the Constitutionality

On June 7, 1892, a man by the name of Homer Plessy was arrested for sitting in a ‘whites only’ car. This was a case that went up to the Supreme Court where they found him guilty. However, this decision of this case showed that the Jim Crow laws were legitimate to the supreme court. The Jim Crow laws were laws that kept people of color still under whites as well as separate them. Such has a white’s only restaurant, different baseball leagues based on colored, colored couldn’t show displays of affection

controversies in the United State of America, such as the Cold War, World War II, and Segregation and others. The Supreme Court case Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896) is widely known to launch the "separate but equal’ court ruling; meaning white and black could not congregate together but each race is equal. In 1954 the famous Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka case overturns Plessy vs. Ferguson by the highest court in the land barred the idea of "separate but equal and the fundamental of segregation. All through

difficult by the legislation of racism in the Plessy v Ferguson case. The Plessy v Ferguson case was a U.S. Supreme Case in 1896 that upheld the constitution of segregation. This case started when Homer Plessy refused to sit in a Jim Crow Car therefore breaking a law in Louisiana in the year 1892. He had bought a first class ticket and then took his seat in a white-only car. Homer Plessy was arrested and imprisoned immediately. In the court Plessy argued that his Constitutional rights were

the law. People have stood up for their beliefs all throughout history, and have faced many consequences for doing so. One example of a man standing up for his beliefs is in 1892 a man by the name of Homer Plessy was taken to court for challenging the Separate Car Act in Louisiana (Konkoly, “Plessy v. Ferguson”). The

act was a legal doctrine according to racial segregation that did not violate the fourteenth amendment. The first case plessy vs. ferguson in 1896 held up the legality of segregation of public facilities. Based on state and local governments legally enforced the racial segregation in public places. In 1954 the supreme court struck down the racial segregation in public schools in the second case, brown vs. the board of education. African americans went to the courts to help protect their rights

The supreme court decided in Plessy v. Ferguson, 1986, that these people could separate themselves from the black people if they had equal things (Carson, 2016). This case created the “separate but equal” saying. These things include schools, bathrooms, and much more. Separate but equal had evidence that the facilities for blacks were not on par with those for whites but the supreme court ruled that it did not violate the fourteenth amendment (Carson, 2016). This case was a major setback for