Ryan, Brandon, Mckayla, Alexis, Taylor Plessy v. Ferguson Ryan, Brandon, Mckayla, Alexis, Taylor
The Case The people involved in the case where Homer Plessy, John Ferguson and the Supreme court. Homer Plessy refused sit in a Jim Crow car because he was ⅛ black. He was brought before John Ferguson who upheld the state law. The law was then challenged in the Supreme court on the grounds that it conflicted with the 13th and 14 amendment. The law separate but equal was then made.
Dates To Remember 1890 Separate Car Act- A law passed in Louisiana where the African Americans and the whites would have separate but equal train car accommodations. June 7th 1892: Homer Plessy gets arrested and put in jail for boarding a white train car that was designed to be used for whites only. April 13th 1896: Plessy vs. Ferguson was argued in the Supreme Court. May 18, 1896: In a 7 to 1 decision the "separate but equal" provision of public accommodations by state governments was found to be constitutional under the Equal Protection Clause.
Conclusions “Separate but equal” This is where blacks would technically have equal things but apart from the whites. Due to racism and segregation though, people considered this still unequal for the African Americans. Later this led to Jim Crow Laws.
Music and Videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s54MsnV2Dp0 http://video.about.com/afroamhistory/Overview--Plessy-v--Ferguson.htm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUSGTsOJM7k
Documents
The significance of the documents The newspaper is saying that the colored and white people need to go to school in different buildings and not in the same classrooms. It is saying that they are not the same as us. The Supreme Court got the case of Homer Plessy when he sat in a “white” railroad car and got arrested. He was only ⅛ African American, but he still had to sit in the “colored” car because he was part black.
Works Cited https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUSGTsOJM7k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s54MsnV2Dp0 "Plessy Vs. Ferguson." Http://video.about.com/afroamhistory/Overview--Plessy-v--Ferguson.html. About.com, 1 Jan. 2014. Web. 2 Dec. 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUSGTsOJM7k http://www.mediahex.com/Brown_v_Board_of_Education_of_Topeka Foner, Eric, and John A. Garraty. "Plessy Vs. Ferguson." Www.history.com/black-history/plessy-v-ferguson. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 1 Jan. 1991. Web. 2 Dec. 2014.
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