Plessy V. Ferguson
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- Colored Only Bus
- But officer, I don't see the problem, it's just a bus!
- You're under arrest!
- In 1896, there was a Louisiana law called the Separate Car Act that was petitioned by Homer Plessy, who was 1/8 black. The law declared separate vehicles for colored and white people, but that the vehicles had to be the same.
- White Only Bus
- Plessy's Attorney
- The Supreme Car Act violates both the 13th and 14th Amendments of the Constitution...
- The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Ferguson. The majority rejected Plessy’s 13th and 14th Amendment arguments and instead endorsed the doctrine of “separate but equal.”
- Supreme Court
- Nahh it's just separate but equal , there ain't nun wrong.
- Team Ferguson
- Judge Ferguson
- The Constitution did not prohibit segregation in view of the majority of the court, which later led to Brown V. Board of Education (1954).Justice Harlan believed that the Constitution must be “color-blind,” and that it could allow “no superior, dominant ruling class of citizens.”
- Class of Constitutional Irony
- This is so unconstitutional... it's taking me all the way back to Plessy V. Ferguson.
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