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Implications

Whites waiting room

Because of the Plessy v. Ferguson case, state laws about racial segregation were constitutional as long facilities were equal.

Although things were suppose to be equal, Blacks were still mistreated.

Protest against segregation

Justice John Harlan, the dissenter, was the only one side with Plessy, he said "Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. ... The 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."

Sources Cited

"Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)." PBS. PBS, Web. 07 Feb. 2014.

"Plessy v. Ferguson." LII / Legal Information Institute. Web. 07 Feb. 2014.

"PLESSY v. FERGUSON." Plessy v. Ferguson. Web. 07 Feb. 2014.

Coloreds water fountain

STARE DECISIS

  • There was no previous decision made by the Supreme. It is argued that the Separate Car Act violated the 14th amendment, but it was decided the state law was within constitutional boundaries because of the separate but equal doctrine.
  • The Plessy decision set the precedent that "separate" facilities for blacks and whites were constitutional as long as they were "equal" but even then they were not equal until the Brown v. Education (1954) case.

Conclusion

Facts of the case

The Supreme Court, in the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson, held that racial segregation proclaimed to be "separate but equal" was constitutional as long as facilities were "equal". Segregation didn't constitute unlawful discrimination.

  • A 30 year old man named Homer Plessy was arrested for sitting in a 'white seat' and refusing to move on the train of the East Louisiana Railroad.
  • He was known as a, Creole of Color, meaning his ancestry traced back to the French, Spanish, and the Caribbean settlers of Louisiana
  • Louisiana had passed a Separate Car Act, legally segregating people in 1892, a black civil rights organization decided to challenge the law in the courts
  • When Plessy was arrested, his case went to the US Supreme Court and his lawyer argued that the Separate Car Act violated the 13th and 14th amendment

There was 7 votes for Ferguson and 1 vote against.

Argued: Monday, April 13, 1896

Decided: Monday, May 18, 1896

The Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) case

By: Alyssa Dames

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