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Before Plessy
Before Plessy Abraham Lincoln was alive and said this quote ''What ever you are, be a good one.'' But he was president when Plessy was born -
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Plessy vs Fregoson
Plessy vs Fergsson -
Born
Plessy was born on March 17,1862 -
13th Amendment
When Plessy was 3 the 13th amendment was ratifed. 13th amendment: OUT LAWED SLAVERY -
14th Amendment
When Plessy was 6 the 14th amendment was ratifed. 14th amendment:States are forbidden to deprive any persom life, liberty, or property with out due process of law. States must give equal protection to all. -
15th Amendment
When Plessy was 8 the 15th amendment was ratifed. 15th amedment: States are forbidden from preventing a person from voting because of race, color or preious condition of servitude. -
When he was 25
When Plessy was 25 he worked as a shoe maker he also got married at this age -
He challeged the law
When Plessy was 30 he challeged the law -
He challeged the law by
He challeged the law by : buying a first class train ticket and sitting in the white only seccion because he was only 1/8 black -
First
First, Plessy aruged that the act violated his 13th and 14th amendment rights but he lost and appealed -
Second
Second, Plessy appealed the diceion but lost again and appleaed to Supreme Court -
Third
Third, Plessy lost in the Supreme court then went to jail -
The laws that he broke
He went into the nice train car -
IN JAIL
Plessy was in jail for 4 mounths in till he was bailed out. -
BAILED OUT
Plessy finally got bailed out by his family who finally found enough money to bail him out ($500) -
16th amendment
When Plessy was 51 the 16th amenment was ratifed. 16th amendment: A tax on income is permitted. -
17th amendment
When Plessy was 51 the 17th amdment was also ratifed. 17th amendment: Senators are elected by the people instead of by state legislatures. -
18th amendment
When Plessy was 57 the 18th amendment was ratifed. 18th amendment: The manufacture, sale, or shipment of intoxicating liquors is forbidden. -
19th amendment
When PLessy was 58 the 19th amendment was ratifed. 19th amendment: Women have the right to vote -
Died
Saldy Plessy died in 1925 on March 1 at the age of 63 -
After Plessy
After Pessy Martin Luther King Jr came around -
After Plessy
After Plessy a park was named in his honner
