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Homer Plessy lived in Louisiana and was 1/8 black. He was born on March 17th 1862
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On June 7th Plessy sat in the white section on a train even though he was 1/8 black
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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.
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This 1896 U.S case upheldn the constitutionality of segregation under the seperate but equal doctrine
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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
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Plessy appealed the decision and lost again, but took the case to the supreme court in 1896
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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.
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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.
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Restrictive Regestration based on race continued following the Plessy decision, it's reasoning not overturned until Brown vs. Topeka in 1954
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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.
