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- The Case
- Henry B Brown--
- Lets take this to supreme court!
- John Marshall Harlan--
- The case
- The question we are here to answer is Does the Separate Car Act violate the Fourteenth Amendment?
- The separate car act reinforces the idea that whites were superior to blacks violating the 14th amendment
- Though they are a separate they are still equal !!
- Harlans decent
- Slavery as an institution tolerated by law has disappeared from our country, but there would remain a power in the States, by sinister legislation, to interfere with the blessings of freedom; to regulate civil rights common to all citizens, upon the basis of race; and to place in a condition of legal inferiority a large body of American citizens, now constituting a part of the political community, called the people of the United States, for whom and by whom, through representatives, our government is administered. Such a system is inconsistent with the guarantee given by the Constitution to each State of a republican form of government, and may be stricken down by congressional action, or by the courts in the discharge of their solemn duty to maintain the supreme law of the land
- The Verdict
- We consider the underlying fallacy of the plaintiffs argument to consist in the assumption that the enforced separation of the two races stamps the colored race with a badge of inferiority if this be so it is not by reason of anything found in the act but solely because the colored race chooses to put that construction upon it If the civil and political rights of both races be equal, one cannot be inferior to the other civilly or politically. If one race be inferior to the other socially, the Constitution of the United States cannot put them upon the same plane.
- 7-1 Verdict Plessy loses
- Facilities will be separate but equal.
- The Effects...
- The Effects...
- Often the facilities that were provied to colored people were usually of lower quality
- Plessy VS Ferguson stabilized segregation it was considered fine as long as they were Separate but equal
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