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Homer Plessy and the Case that made Jim Crow’s Career
In the 1857 case Dred Scott v. Sandford, the United States Supreme Court argued that under the Constitution and laws of the country, “the Negro … had no rights that the white man was bound to respect.” Almost 100 years later, in Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that racial segregation in public schools was “inherently unequal.” In between these cases, chronologically and figuratively, sits the case of Plessy v. Ferguson.
Plessy v. Ferguson and the 14th Amendment
In 1896, the Court ruled in Plessy that segregation in passenger railroad transit was constitutionally permissible if the accommodations for each race were equal. Writing for the majority, Justice Henry Billings Brown “conceded that the 14th Amendment intended to establish absolute equality for the races before the law, but held that separate treatment did not imply the inferiority of African Americans” (www.oyez.org). Justice Brown wrote tha
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Plessy, Homer A.
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Homer A. Plessy (1863-1925) — Civil Rights Advocate, Plaintiff in Supreme Court Decision: Plessy v. Ferguson
Introduction: Homer A. Plessy was the plaintiff in the middle of the 1896 Supreme Court ruling that confirmed the concept of “separate but equal” in U.S. law which then opened the door even wider for legal segregation, commonly known as “Jim Crow” laws. On June 7, 1892, the mixed-race Plessy deliberately sat in a whites-only rail car to test a new Louisiana state law requiring separate cars on trains for whites and blacks. He was forced to leave the train, arrested and fined; however, Homer Plessy’s interrupted train ride became the basis of , the Supreme Court case that gave legal cover to seventy more years of Jim Crow laws. Plessy, a shoemaker, was recruited by the Comité des Citoyens, an association of prominent mixed-race men who were considered free people of color before the Civil War. They wanted to cha
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Civil Rights Digital Library
- Authoritative Name:
- Plessy, Homer Adolph
- Biography:
- "Homer Adolph Plessy, an African American, had boarded a train in New Orleans and seated himself in a "whites-only" car. When he refused to move, he was arrested for violating the "Jim Crow Car Act of 1890." The incident led to the Supreme Court case in which all but Justice Harlan voted against Plessy, affirming the right of states to enact segregation laws. The "separate but equal" ruling set the stage for the rampant racial discrimination that followed in the Deep South."--We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement WWW site, retrieved Apr. 3, 2008.
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