The Separate Car Act By Homer Plessy

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In 1890, Louisiana passed a law called the Separate Car Act which required whites and blacks to be separated in railroad cars. In 1892, Homer Plessy bought a first class ticket and sat in the whites only car. Although Plessy had the appearance of a white man he was still arrested and was bought to trial in a New Orleans court. Later on, he filed a petition against the judge, John H. Ferguson. Plessy argued that the Separate Car Act violated the 13th and 14th amendment which provided him equal treatment under the law but the judge over his case ruled that Louisiana had the right to make their own laws within the state boundaries. The ruling also stated that segregation did not violate the 14th amendment. This case enabled the expansion of “separate

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The Landmark Case Plessy v. Ferguson was about a man named Homer Plessy who got arrested after buying a first class ticket on a train and sitting in the whites-only car. Homer Plessy was only 1/8th African American but still got punished because the Louisiana Separate Car Act says that all railroad companies must provide separate but equal compartments for white/non-white passengers. Anyone that does not follow that statue has to pay a fine of $25 or spend 20 days in jail. A group of black citizens…

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Homer Adolph Plessy v. Ferguson was an early Supreme Court case that challenged state laws upholding segregation and, as Plessy thought, violated the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments. Plessy, in a protest movement, was recruited to sit in the whites only section of a train car and was arrested for it. When he was taken to court he protested that the train cars were separate and unequal and this violated his Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments. Unfortunately for Plessy, he lost in all three courts…

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The Plessy V. Ferguson Trial

The Plessy v. Ferguson trial was one that changed the course of the country forever. The issue of segregation is the theme of the trial, and the issue had to do with the fact that black people and white people were not permitted to use the same facilities. The main man involved, Homer Plessy, was a man who was seven-eighths white, and one eighth black. Aside from him, many others were woven into the intricate tangle of this trial. Because of Homer Plessy’s trial, the idea of “separate but equal”…

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Jim Crow Laws: Plessy Vs. Ferguson

United States. Segregation occurred in many places including railways, schools, restaurants, hotels, theaters, and other areas of social life. In 1896, the court case of Plessy v. Ferguson took place. This case ruled that segregation was allowed as long as equal facilities were provided for both races. The principle of “separate but equal” was thereafter applied to all aspects of public life. Soon after the Reconstruction period in 1877, the Southern State governments again became “white man’s governments…

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To Kill A Mockingbird: The Plessy Vs. Ferguson Case

like the Plessy vs. Ferguson case, in which a black man named Homer Plessy who also accused of a crime. On June 7th, 1892, 30-year-old Homer Plessy was jailed for sitting in the “white” car. When Louisiana passed the Separate Car Act in 1892, it legally segregated common carriers. Plessy’s lawyer argued that the Separate Car Act violated the 13th and 14th amendments to the constitution. The…

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Supreme Court Case: Plessy Vs. Ferguson

the situation in the Supreme Court case entitled Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. In this controversial case, a man by the name of Homer Plessy was one-eighth black. This man was convicted of breaking a Louisiana law that stated that train cars had to be separated between whites and blacks. Plessy bought a train ticket and sat in the white-only car. He was convicted and imprisoned for violating the law. He was found guilty by Judge John Ferguson. Plessy filed a petition against Ferguson arguing that the…

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The Plessy V. Ferguson Court Case

protest. One man, Homer Plessy refused to move to a black train car when asked. This eventually started the Plessy v. Ferguson Court Case. Plessy V. Ferguson decided the “separate but equal” doctrine, meaning that the black and whites could have separate facilities, as long as they were the same in equality. In 1890, U.S government officials decided to put the Separate Car Act into place in Louisiana. One year later, a group of Creole professionals came together to decide if the Act was unconstitutional…

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Slavery: Abolishing Segregation In The United States

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Plessy V. Ferguson Case

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Separate Car Act Case Study

introduced the Separate Car Act in 1890, a law that made the railroad companies have separate rail cars for whites and blacks. The punishment for siting in the wrong car was a twenty-five-dollar fine or 20 days in jail. This law would go to the courts when Homer Plessy bought a ticket and sat in a white car and was arrested. Plessy took his case to two lower courts in Louisiana, arguing that the law was unconstitutional. The low courts ruled that the law was constitutional, and Plessy appealed the…

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