All human should be treated equally. Homer Plessy strongly believed this and fought for this right, which became the Civil Rights Movement. “Protesting the violation of his 13th and 14th amendment rights, the history-maker's court case became known as Plessy v.
Ferguson” (biography.com). The case was held on April 18, 1896 and was decided on May 18, 1896 (history.com). The outcome supports the idea that everyone should be treated equally.
States continue to make laws to block equal opportunity for African Americans. Most of the states enacted laws discriminating against blacks. There is a law the required blacks to attend separate schools and use separate public facilities. This law became known as “separate but equal”. Homer Plessy, half African American, half European (which made him light skin) wanted to know if he could changed those laws. “Plessy purchased a first-class ticket on the East Louisiana Railroad and sat in the "whites only" …show more content…
Plessy did it to stop the laws of segregations. If it had not been for Plessy to protests the law of “separate but equal”, United States today could be living at worst. “Some historians are of the opinion that the Court had very little choice but to uphold Louisiana’s law, believing that a ruining outlawed a state’s right to make distinctions between races could have led to another civil war” (Aaseng 90). There won’t be any balance between blacks and whites; but whites would have the advantage side since it was whites who created the laws. “On May 18, 1896, the Court issued its decision” (law.jrank.org) until in 1995, when the Supreme Court regard the Plessy’s case and gave the rights and freedom to black; believing that “the argument against segregation laws was false because of the assumption that the enforced separation of the two races stamps the colored race with a badge of inferiority”
Ferguson” (biography.com). The case was held on April 18, 1896 and was decided on May 18, 1896 (history.com). The outcome supports the idea that everyone should be treated equally.
States continue to make laws to block equal opportunity for African Americans. Most of the states enacted laws discriminating against blacks. There is a law the required blacks to attend separate schools and use separate public facilities. This law became known as “separate but equal”. Homer Plessy, half African American, half European (which made him light skin) wanted to know if he could changed those laws. “Plessy purchased a first-class ticket on the East Louisiana Railroad and sat in the "whites only" …show more content…
Plessy did it to stop the laws of segregations. If it had not been for Plessy to protests the law of “separate but equal”, United States today could be living at worst. “Some historians are of the opinion that the Court had very little choice but to uphold Louisiana’s law, believing that a ruining outlawed a state’s right to make distinctions between races could have led to another civil war” (Aaseng 90). There won’t be any balance between blacks and whites; but whites would have the advantage side since it was whites who created the laws. “On May 18, 1896, the Court issued its decision” (law.jrank.org) until in 1995, when the Supreme Court regard the Plessy’s case and gave the rights and freedom to black; believing that “the argument against segregation laws was false because of the assumption that the enforced separation of the two races stamps the colored race with a badge of inferiority”