Separate is not equal. How can separating a whole people group and treating them less than human make them equal. Everyone is equal and we should treat everyone the same. The U.S is founded on opportunities and the pursuit of happiness. How can they pursuit if they don’t even have the opportunity. Plessy vs. Ferguson shows us that there is a whole lot of hate in this country, when it should be love over hate.
In 1890 the Louisiana State Legislature passed the Separate Car Act, a law that required "equal, but separate" train car accommodation for Black and White people. Separate Car Act was one of the 'Jim Crow Laws' emplaced by Southern states, beginning in the 1880s, that legalized segregation between Black Americans and White Americans.When …show more content…
In 1891 a group of activists in New Orleans established a black civil rights organization called the 'Citizens Committee' to test whether the Separate Car Law was with its "Separate but equal" statement was constitutional. A 30-year-old shoemaker and activist called Homer Plessy agreed to test the law. On June 7, 1892 Plessy bought a first-class ticket to travel interstate from New Orleans to Covington on the East Louisiana Railroad. He boarded the "white car" and told the conductor that he was black. The conductor told him to move to the appropriate car, which Plessy refused to do. He stated that he was an American citizen, and had paid for a first-class ticket, and that he intended to ride in the first-class car. The conductor stopped the train and alerted the police. Detective Christopher Cain boarded the train and arrested Homer who was forced off the train and taken to …show more content…
Ferguson was wrong because first of the whole this goes against the 14th amendment. The decision of whether the Fourteenth Amendment makes "separate but equal" schools unconstitutional, comes down to the question. Is a segregated school system really equal? Imagine two identical schools, each with similar gymnasiums, cafeterias and classrooms, each with equally good libraries and faculty. The only difference is that one is for Blacks, the other for Whites. The courts of the Southern states claim this is all that is meant by equality and their attitude toward the sphere of the Fourteenth Amendment follows naturally from this belief. How can we be the land of the free and home of the brave with acts like these? The impact of Plessy was to relegate blacks to second-class citizenship. The government did this by making segregation legal in America. They were separated from whites by law and by private action in transportation, public accommodations, recreational facilities, churches, cemeteries and school in both Northern and Southern states. This shows how could they be free if they were just being demoted during the movement of making segregation
In 1890 the Louisiana State Legislature passed the Separate Car Act, a law that required "equal, but separate" train car accommodation for Black and White people. Separate Car Act was one of the 'Jim Crow Laws' emplaced by Southern states, beginning in the 1880s, that legalized segregation between Black Americans and White Americans.When …show more content…
In 1891 a group of activists in New Orleans established a black civil rights organization called the 'Citizens Committee' to test whether the Separate Car Law was with its "Separate but equal" statement was constitutional. A 30-year-old shoemaker and activist called Homer Plessy agreed to test the law. On June 7, 1892 Plessy bought a first-class ticket to travel interstate from New Orleans to Covington on the East Louisiana Railroad. He boarded the "white car" and told the conductor that he was black. The conductor told him to move to the appropriate car, which Plessy refused to do. He stated that he was an American citizen, and had paid for a first-class ticket, and that he intended to ride in the first-class car. The conductor stopped the train and alerted the police. Detective Christopher Cain boarded the train and arrested Homer who was forced off the train and taken to …show more content…
Ferguson was wrong because first of the whole this goes against the 14th amendment. The decision of whether the Fourteenth Amendment makes "separate but equal" schools unconstitutional, comes down to the question. Is a segregated school system really equal? Imagine two identical schools, each with similar gymnasiums, cafeterias and classrooms, each with equally good libraries and faculty. The only difference is that one is for Blacks, the other for Whites. The courts of the Southern states claim this is all that is meant by equality and their attitude toward the sphere of the Fourteenth Amendment follows naturally from this belief. How can we be the land of the free and home of the brave with acts like these? The impact of Plessy was to relegate blacks to second-class citizenship. The government did this by making segregation legal in America. They were separated from whites by law and by private action in transportation, public accommodations, recreational facilities, churches, cemeteries and school in both Northern and Southern states. This shows how could they be free if they were just being demoted during the movement of making segregation