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Homer Plessy
Homer Plessy lived in Louisiana and was 1/8 black. He was born on March 17th 1862 -
Plessy sat in an all whites section
On June 7th Plessy sat in the white section on a train even though he was 1/8 black -
Plessy was arrested
Plessy was arrested for riding a whites only railroad car, because he was 1/8 black and Plessy said that law violated his 13th and 14th amendment. -
The Supreme Court Case was considered under the line of seperate but equal
This 1896 U.S case upheldn the constitutionality of segregation under the seperate but equal doctrine -
Plessy was arrested for breaking the Louisiana law
It stemmed from an 1892 incident in which African American passenger, Homer Plessy refused to sit in a Jim Crow car, breaking a Louisiana law -
Plessy appealed the decision and lost again
Plessy appealed the decision and lost again, but took the case to the supreme court in 1896 -
The Supreme Court upheld the previous decisions
The Supreme Court upheld the previous decisions and said that racial segregation was constitutional if accomidations were equal. This led to more and more legal segregation all over the US. -
Plessy's argument was rejected by the court
Rejecting Plessy's argument that his constitutional rights were violated the court ruled that a state law that "implies merely a legal distinction" between whites and blacks did not conflict with the 13th and 14th amendments. -
Brown V. Board of education
Restrictive Regestration based on race continued following the Plessy decision, it's reasoning not overturned until Brown vs. Topeka in 1954 -
Plessy Ferguson case closed
Plessy died March 1st 1925 at age 62. In a dissenting opinion in the words of John Marshall Harland " In my opinion the judgment this day rendered wil in time prove to be quite as pernicious as the decision made by the tribunal drett scott case.'' Overall Plessy vs Ferguson is a case no one will forget.
