Plessy+v.+Ferguson

Plessy vs. Ferguson Dominique Cheeseboro peroid3  In the year of 1986 the Supreme Court was introduced to a landmark case called Plessy vs. Ferguson. This case was named a landmark because this case sets up segregation and The line “separate is equal.” the U.S. Supreme Court decided that a Louisiana law mandating Separate but equal accommodations for blacks and whites on railroads was indeed Constitutional. This decision made the legal foundation of justify many other actions later on in the future. In our US 1 class we came across this when we was reading about reconstruction of the south.

Plessy vs. Ferguson is about a man that was mixed with African American and Caucasian. His skin complexion looked very white but everyone knew that it was common knowledge that he was mixed. Plessy purchased in the state of Louisiana a first class railroad ticket. Instead of going in the all black railroad box he decided that he would go in the all white railroad box. People on the all white railroad box had problems having a black or half black person being on their box so they had Plessy removed. On April 13, 1896 homer Plesssy took his case of the railroad box issue to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court had came down with a decision and the handed down by a vote of 1 to 7, with the majority decision written by Henry Billings Browns. John Marshall Harlan wrote a dissent because he was the judge that was for Plessy. John Marshall Harlan said that if we separate whites and blacks now there is going to be a problem in the future. He was right because not that long after this case black people was experiencing segregation. Making white people feel as thought that they were more superior.

The case of Plessy vs. Ferguson fits into the larger “American Story” of our history because it was the star of segregation and it helped to end segregation. The case Plessy vs. Ferguson started segregation because after the case the Supreme Court let it be known that “separate is equal.” The case also helped to end segregation because later The Brown vs. Board of education went to the Supreme Court with basically the same problem having black and white kids being separated in school. If the Plessy vs. Ferguson case never happen then people wouldn’t find it inside them to go through it and they wouldn’t fight and win. This case went done forward to American’s path. Plessy vs. Ferguson continued down America’s pass because of how the case shaped feature cases that took it to Supreme Court. Since Plessy vs. Ferguson Supreme Court case which deals with segregation their were many other cases similar to Plessy vs. Ferguson that was argued at Supreme Court. In the end a new direction was turned because one of the cases that were similar to Plessy vs. Ferguson was won and began the beginning of ending segregation that case was Brown vs. The Board of education.



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