By: Haley Davis, Justin Stowe, McKenzie
Kennedy, Jordon Scott, and Issac
Slingerland
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Homer Plessy was arrested on
June 7, 1892
Plessy’s trial when he argued that
the law was unconstitutional was in
1896.
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The case began in 1892, when Homer A. Plessy, an African
American shoemaker, challenged a Louisiana law that
required separate but equal facilities for blacks and whites
in railroad cars. Plessy had skin light enough to appear
white. He was arrested for sitting in a car reserved for white
people after telling the conductor that he was black. He had
violated Louisiana's Jim Crow, Separate Car Act. John H.
Ferguson, a criminal district court judge, overruled Plessy's
plea that the law was unconstitutional. Plessy then brought
action against Ferguson. Plessy argued that the law violated
a clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that
guaranteed citizens equal protection of the laws. The
Supreme Court ruled that the amendment did not seek to
guarantee the social equality of all races. The court upheld
the Louisiana law. Segregation of the races in the South
continued, though facilities for blacks were nearly always
inferior to those for whites.
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Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark decision of
the Supreme Court of the United States
concerning racial segregation. In this 1896
ruling, the court established the policy of
"separate but equal" public facilities for blacks
and whites. The decision formed the basis of
widespread segregation in the South for over
50 years.
In 1896, the
Supreme Court
issued its decision in
Plessy v. Ferguson,
which sustained the
constitutionality of
Louisiana’s Jim Crow
Law.
We couldn’t find any movies
specifically over the Plessy v.
Ferguson Case but here are two of
many books:
These are two songs we
founds based on
segregation of race, but not
specifically on the case:
1. Get Up, Stand Up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju
MlHdxiIZ8
2. Lift Every Voice and Sing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g19Q6i_e7tA
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Ivers, G. (2013). Plessy v. Ferguson. In World Book Student. Retrieved from
http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/article?id=ar434900
. N.p.. Web. 13 Nov 2013.
<http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0163_0
537_ZS.html>.
Rastavibe13, . Bob Marley Get Up Stand Up. 2008. Video. n.p. Web. 13 Nov
2013. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuMlHdxiIZ8>.
PianoManT, . Lift Every Voice and Sing. 2012. Video. n.p. Web. 13 Nov 2013.
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g19Q6i_e7tA>.