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THE 13th AMENDMENT
The 13th Amendment was approved on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the states later on December 6, 1865. This law affirms the end of slavery and states that every person, even black or white, is equal to the rest of human beings. This was the law which abolished the slavery in the US. -
THE 14th AMENDMENT
The 14th Amendment was ratified on July 9,1868. It confirms the citizenship of all the people who were a slaver in the war years. Also, this law prohibits denying any person its life, property, liberty or anything without a law process. -
THE 15th AMENDMENT
The 15th Amendment gave all the African American people the right to vote, which was denied when they were slavers. This law was ratified on February 3, 1870 but it did not come true until the Voting Rights Act of 1965, where almost all the African American in the South were registered to vote. -
PLESSY V. FERGUSON
Home Plessy was a mulatto (one-eighth black) who lived in Louisiana. During the 1890’s this city Had a law called the Separate Car Act. This meant that black and white people had the right to go in the same bus but they had to be separate in their seats. If you did not follow the rule you must have to pay a 25 $ fine or go to jail for 20 days. Homer Plessy, on June 7, 1892, bought a ticket to go in the bus but he sat in the white side. This cost him to be arrested. He had to argue in court that
