He argued that the fourteenth amendment was being ignored as Plessy’s rights to “equal protection” were being neglected. While reflecting the majority decision of this case, Justice Henry Billings Brown stated that the ‘separate but equal doctrine” depended on the status of equality of all races, the usage of different facilities were a matter for society itself, not the courts. Also that the “…Laws… requiring their separation.. do not necessarily imply the inferiority of either race.” The United Stated Supreme Court ended up ruling the Louisiana Separate Car Law perfectly constitutional. After losing the case, Homer Plessy was charged $25 for the violation of the law of Louisiana. This decision then led to the expansion of Jim Crow laws until the middle of the twentieth
He argued that the fourteenth amendment was being ignored as Plessy’s rights to “equal protection” were being neglected. While reflecting the majority decision of this case, Justice Henry Billings Brown stated that the ‘separate but equal doctrine” depended on the status of equality of all races, the usage of different facilities were a matter for society itself, not the courts. Also that the “…Laws… requiring their separation.. do not necessarily imply the inferiority of either race.” The United Stated Supreme Court ended up ruling the Louisiana Separate Car Law perfectly constitutional. After losing the case, Homer Plessy was charged $25 for the violation of the law of Louisiana. This decision then led to the expansion of Jim Crow laws until the middle of the twentieth