Separate but equal policies are unconstitutional citizens. There is no caste here. Our Constitution is colorblind and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.” The state of Louisiana passed a law requiring separate train cars for blacks and whites. Everything was based on “separate but equal” housing, meaning that public facilities were divided by race but the location had to serve the same purpose. In 1892, Homer Plessy was an eighth African-American and he took a seat in a “whites-only” car on a Louisiana train. He refused to get into the car reserved for blacks and was arrested. I believe this was unconstitutional because of the 13th and 14th amendments. States ratified Jim Crow laws to legally separate whites from blacks and established segregated schools, facilities, parks, and other places. When Plessy was arrested, he petitioned the Louisiana Supreme Court against Ferguson to "discontinue proceedings against him for criminal violation of state law." (Handout) Again, the Louisiana Supreme Court refused and he went to the United States Supreme Court. The arguments in this case involve the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, and the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment, which "prohibits states from denying to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws" . When the case went to the United States Supreme Court, Plessy was arraigned against Justice John H. Ferguson. (http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/equal_protection) Was a state law requiring separate accommodations a violation of equal protection? If the St...... middle of paper ......cation in the United States, it would put the Constitution on the side of racial equality and make the civil rights movement an innovation. By 1954, much of the United States had racially segregated schools, which was made legal by the Plessy V Ferguson case. “Separate but equal” establishments should be unconstitutional because they violated the 13th and 14th amendments and everyone was created equal, so no. the race must be separated from another race. In my opinion, Homer Plessy never broke any laws or did anything wrong, nor did he point out that "separate but equal" facilities were unconstitutional. Harlan once said: "Everyone knows that the statues in question were intended, not so much to exclude white people from cars occupied by blacks, as to exclude colored people from cars occupied or assigned to white people.. “

Essay / Separate but equal policies are unconstitutional citizens. There is no caste here. Our Constitution is colorblind and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.” The state of Louisiana passed a law requiring separate train cars for blacks and whites. Everything was based on “separate but equal” housing, meaning that public facilities were divided by race but the location had to serve the same purpose. In 1892, Homer Plessy was an eighth African-American and he took a seat in a “whites-only” car on a Louisiana train. He refused to get into the car reserved for blacks and was arrested. I believe this was unconstitutional because of the 13th and 14th amendments. States ratified Jim Crow laws to legally separate whites from blacks and established segregated schools, facilities, parks, and other places. When Plessy was arrested, he petitioned the Louisiana Supreme Court against Ferguson to "discontinue proceedings against him for criminal violation of state law." (Handout) Again, the Louisiana Supreme Court refused and he went to the United States Supreme Court. The arguments in this case involve the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, and the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment, which "prohibits states from denying to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws" . When the case went to the United States Supreme Court, Plessy was arraigned against Justice John H. Ferguson. (http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/equal_protection) Was a state law requiring separate accommodations a violation of equal protection? If the St...... middle of paper ......cation in the United States, it would put the Constitution on the side of racial equality and make the civil rights movement an innovation. By 1954, much of the United States had racially segregated schools, which was made legal by the Plessy V Ferguson case. “Separate but equal” establishments should be unconstitutional because they violated the 13th and 14th amendments and everyone was created equal, so no. the race must be separated from another race. In my opinion, Homer Plessy never broke any laws or did anything wrong, nor did he point out that "separate but equal" facilities were unconstitutional. Harlan once said: "Everyone knows that the statues in question were intended, not so much to exclude white people from cars occupied by blacks, as to exclude colored people from cars occupied or assigned to white people.. “

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