M8L3 Assignment

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TheSeparate Car Act was enacted in Louisiana in 1890, which made it required that trains provided separate cars for white and non white passengers, and they were not allowed to sit in a car together.
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Homer Plessy
You're coming with me boy
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Judge Ferguson
The Separate Car Act is a violation of the 13th and 14th amendment
Plessy took the case to the Louisiana Supreme Court, but there he was also deemed guilty, so he took the case to the United States Supreme Court.
Attorney Albion Torquee
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The Supreme Court
The Supreme Court ruled 7-1 in Judge Ferguson's favor. They claimed the Separate Car Act was not a violation of the 14th amendment, because while it required separate cars, the cars were still equal. and the 14th amendment only calls for legal equality and not social equality.
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Though one Justice did agree with Plessy. Justice John Marshall Harlan argued that segregation laws imply that races are not equal, and therefore are a violation of the 14th amendment
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Despite this, Plessy was found guilty.
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No it's not, the law is constitutional. Plessy is guilty