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      Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) Name: Reading Breaking the Rules You may have heard the saying, “Some rules are meant to be broken.” In 1890, a man named Homer Plessy broke the rules. The state of Louisiana had passed the Separate Car Act, which required railway companies to have “separate but equal” train cars for black people and white ...

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      PLESSY v. FERGUSON (1896) ORIGINS OF THE CASE In 1892, Homer Plessy took a seat in the “Whites Only” car of a train and refused to move. He was arrested, tried, and convicted in the District Court of New Orleans for breaking Louisiana’s segregation law.

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      1. Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896). 2. Even the strong dissent of Harlan, J., in Plessy v. Ferguson emphasized that political equality under the Constitution was not equivalent to social equality or racial integration. The "liberal view" of that era was that the Negro's status would be

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      Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) On June 7, 1892, 30-year-old Homer Plessy was jailed for sitting in the "White" car of the East Louisiana Railroad. Plessy could easily pass for white but under Louisiana law, he was considered black despite his light complexion and therefore required to sit in the "Colored" car. He was a Creole of Color, a term used

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      Plessy v. ferguson (1896) equal protection and affirmative action Case Background Although the Declaration of Independence affirmed that “all men are created equal,” and had inalienable rights including liberty, African Americans were systematically denied their liberty with the institution of slavery. Even

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      Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) Argued: April 13, 1896 . Decided: May 18, 1896 . Background and Facts . In 1890, Louisiana passed a law called the Separate Car Act. This law said that railroad companies must provide “ separate but equal ” train cars based on race. Black people had to sit with each other and White people had to sit with each other ...

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      v. f ER guson document k majority opinion Majority Opinion (6-1), Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 The object of the [Fourteenth] Amendment was undoubtedly to enforce the absolute equality of the two races before the law, but, in the nature of things, it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or

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      Plessy v. Ferguson 163 U.S. 537 (1896) Title: Justice John Marshall Harlan’s Dissent Source: Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), Supreme Court Date: 1896 EXCERPT: The white race deems itself to be the dominant race in this country. And so it is, in prestige, in achievements, in education, in wealth, and in power.

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      as slave codes and black codes) since the founding of America, the infamous Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) playing a major role in entrenching segregation throughout America. Relatedly, the fight for civil rights started well before the typical assumption that that it was a movement of the 1950s-1960s, and

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      Plessy v.Ferguson (1896) is perhaps the most significant U.S. Supreme Court decision affecting race relations in America. In its decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, the Court enshed the doctrine rin of “Separate butEqual,” that arguably has left a lasting impact on racerelations. The legacy of Plessy v. Ferguson is anything but neat ...

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      Certainly, the long arm of the government was far too short in 1896 when the Supreme Court of the United States handed down what has been called the worst decision ever made in the case of Plessy v.

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      Summary of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. The case stemmed from an 1892 incident in which African-American train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a car for blacks.

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      Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) – [Abridged] 1 The statute of Louisiana, acts of 1890, c. 111, requiring railway companies carrying passengers in their coaches in that State, to provide equal, but separate, accommodations for the white and colored races, by providing two or more passenger coaches for each passenger train, or by dividing the

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      Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) Argued: April 13, 1896 . Decided: May 18, 1896 . Background . The . 14. th. Amendment . to the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1868 during the Reconstruction Era following the Civil War. It was one of three amendments intended to extend constitutional rights to African Americans. The 13. th. Amendment officially ...

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      Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) Constitutional Principles: • 14th Amendment - equal protection clause - "no state shall ... deny to any person...the equal protection of the laws • Equality - rights of ethnic/racial groups Facts: • Plessy (1/8 African American) considered a black man according to state of Louisiana.

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      Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) Justice Henry Billings Brown, Dissent by Justice John Marshall Harlan Historical Background During Reconstruction the American South saw a widespread upheaval of prevailing norms and customs. In order to regain admittance into the Union the former Confederate states needed to

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      LESSY v. FERGUSON, 163 U.S. 537 (1896) 163 U.S. 537 PLESSY v. FERGUSON. No. 210. May 18, 1896. This was a petition for writs of prohibition and certiorari originally filed in the supreme court of the state by Plessy, the plaintiff in error, against the Hon. John H. Ferguson, judge of the criminal

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      Majority Opinion, Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) The object of the [Fourteenth] amendment was undoubtedly to enforce the absolute equality of the two races before the law, but in the nature of things it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social, as distinguished from political, equality,

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