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Montanarella 1 Taylor Montanarella 25 August 2023 History 102 Kenneth McMullen Plessy vs. Ferguson SCOTUS #1 1. Where and when did the actions take place that resulted in this case? The actions that resulted in this case took place in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1892 2. What happened? Homer Plessy, a mixed-race man, purposefully boarded a whites-only train car in New Orleans in 1892, which marked the beginning of the lawsuit. Plessy broke Louisiana's Separate Car Act of 1890, which called for "equal, but separate" rail facilities for white and non-white passengers, by stepping aboard the whites-only car. 3. Who was involved? Some individuals who were involved in this case included Homer Plessy, Justice John Marshall Harlan, Judge John H. Ferguson. 4. Who sued, and why? Homer Plessy sued Judge John H. Ferguson because he made him get out of the whites only section of the train because he was ⅛ black.
Montanarella 2 5. What was the USSC’s decision? Separate but equal facilities were recognized as constitutional on May 18, 1896, by the U.S. Supreme Court in the case Plessy v. Ferguson. Over the subsequent 50 years, the Plessy v. Ferguson ruling supported the fundamental idea of racial segregation. 6. What was the court’s reasoning behind the majority opinion? The court affirmed the practice of racial segregation imposed by the state in a judgment written by Justice Henry Billings Brown. Justice Brown acknowledged that the 14th Amendment sought to provide complete equality for all races before the law, but he ruled that African Americans' distinct status did not entail their inferiority. 7. What was the effect on the U.S. because of this decision On that date, the Court affirmed state-imposed Jim Crow laws in its Plessy v. Ferguson "separate but equal" judgment. For the following fifty years, it served as the official justification for racial segregation in the United States.
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