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  • Plessy v. Ferguson
  • The Facts
  • Plessy vs. ferguson !!!
  • i refuse to sit here!!!
  • The question before the courts
  • if equal, did not violate the constitution. segregation was not discrimination.
  • decision
  • 7 justices
  • VERSUS
  • 1 justice
  • Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark decision of the u.s. supreme court. a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal".
  • constitutional application
  • SEPARATE BUT EQUAL IS THE LAW OF THE LAND
  • Homer Plessy was considered 1/8th black, therefore he had to sit in the side of the train that black people sat in, of course Plessy refused, this turned into a major case called...
  • arguments for the petitioner
  • the court decided that racially separate faculties, if equal, did not violate the constitution. segregation, court said , was not discrimination
  • arguments for the respondent
  • seven-to-one majority (one justice did not participate),advanced the controversial “separate but equal” doctrine for assessing the constitutionality of racial segregation laws.
  • significance
  • PLESSY V FERGUSON:i prevented challenges to racial segregation!!!
  • the separate but equal: law of the land.
  • Ferguson, at the Louisiana Supreme Court, arguing that the segregation law violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th amendment,as well as the 13th amendment that prohibited slavery.
  • what about the 13th and 14th amendments!!!
  • The Court held that the state law was constitutional. In an opinion authored by Justice Henry Billings Brown, the majority upheld state-imposed racial segregation.
  • Plessy v. Ferguson was important because it essentially established the constitutionality of racial segregation. As a controlling legal precedent, it prevented constitutional challenges to racial segregation for more than half a century until it was finally overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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