1. Homer Plessy was charged with violating the Separate Car Act. He violated this law by sitting in
the railroad car designated for whites only.
2. The thirteenth amendment bans slavery and the fourteenth amendment requires the
government to treat all people equally. He believed the separate car act violated these rights
because the people and government were not treating him equally because they were assigning
blacks to their own cart and not letting them set where they choose for the sole reason that
they were black.
3. I would say that they people are not treating him as equally as whites because he would be
allowed to sit where he chooses if he were treated equally.
4. Yes, and I believe he could justify his making this distinction by stating that the Separate Car Act
was unconstitutional if applied to trains running outside of Louisiana however, he could declare
that the law was constitutional for trains running within multiple state because he decided that
the state could choose to regulate railroad companies that operated solely within the state of
Louisiana.
5. No it possible for two races to remain separated while striving for equality. Separation and
equality are not compatible because separation requires you to ignore the equality to at least a
portion of the population and vice versa.
6. Yes, when they’re separating girls and guy into different locker rooms