Plessy v. FergusonRyan, Brandon, Mckayla, Alexis, Taylor

The CaseThe 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 Remember1890 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 Videoshttps://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=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

http://www.mediahex.com/Brown_v_Board_of_Education_of_TopekaFoner, 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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