Plessy vs. Ferguson

By mboltz

  • Thirteenth Amendment is Passed

    Thirteenth Amendment is Passed
    The 13th Amendment States:
    Section 1.
    Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
    Section 2.
    Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. (This was later ratified December 6, 1865)

  • Fourteenth Amendenment Is Passed

    Fourteenth Amendenment Is Passed
    Section one states that if you were born or naturaluized in the United States you are a citizen and you have a right to jurisdiction. The government cannot enforce a law that will take away any citizen's rights.
    Section Two states that if you are a male and twenty one years or older, you can vote unless you participated in rebellion or any other crime.
    Section three says if you are running for anything you must take an oath to follow the constituion.

  • Fourteenth Amendment (continued)

    Fourteenth Amendment (continued)
    Section four states that you must pay taxes, and if you are guilty of rebellion or any other crime, you must pay the governemtn for the debt you created.
    Section five states the Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
    (This was later ratified on July 9, 1868)

  • Segregation Laws

    Segregation Laws
    A law was passed in Louisiana segregating whites from blacks. This law will play a roll in Plessy vs. Ferguson, seperating the whites and blacks on trains.

  • Homer Plessy Boards the Train

    Homer Plessy Boards the Train
    Homer Plessy, a 30-year-old shoemaker, boarded the East Lousisna Railroad, wanting to take a trip to New Orleans. Since Plessy was 1/8 black, he was commanded to ride the black car, but he refused and was arrested.

  • Later that year..

    Later that year..
    Later in 1892, Plessy ruled against the State of Lousisiana for being in violation of his rights according to the 13th and 14th amendments. The judge, John Howard Ferguson, ruled against him.

  • Plessy Appeals

    Plessy Appeals
    Plessy appeals his case and it goes to the Supreme Court. The Court ruled it "seperate but equal", agreeing with Ferguson. On judge, Justice John Marshall Harlan, was the only judge ruling in favor of Plessy.

  • Brown vs. Board of Education Reaches a Verdict

    Brown vs. Board of Education Reaches a Verdict
    The case Brown vs. Board of Education reached a verdict after 5 months of deliberation. They were in favor of Brown, which overturned the Plessy case. By overturning Plessy, the Court ended America's 58-year-long practice of legal racial segregation.