PL HELP ME OUT PL GIVING OUT 63 POINTS OUT WHO EVERY ANSWERS THIS CORRECTLY PLESSY V. FERGUSON: A SUMMARY

(question 3) Plessy’s lawyers argued that Louisiana’s segregation law violated both the Thirteenth Amendment, which bars slavery, and the Fourteenth Amendment, which guarantees all Americans equal protection under the law.

3. Why did Plessy believe that the Separate Car Act violated his rights under the Fourteenth Amendment?

(question 4) Louisiana courts consistently found against Plessy, and the case moved all the way to the Supreme Court. The U. S. Supreme Court ruled 7-1 in Plessy v. Ferguson that a Louisiana law requiring “equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races” was constitutional.

Writing for the Court’s majority, Justice Henry Brown ruled that the law did not “discriminate” among legal rights by race, but merely recognized a “distinction” between races “which must always exist so long as white men are distinguished from the other race by color.” …The ruling established the “separate but equal” doctrine that informs many states’ decision to segregate public facilities— schools, railcars, even drinking fountains.

4. How did the precedent set by the case affect the lives of African Americans beyond the issue of travel in railroads?