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Does the separate car act violate the fourteenth amendment?

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Hommer Plessy,who was 7/8ths Cacasian. He agreed to participate in a test about the separated car act.He was doing this with residents from New Orleans who wanted to repeal the act. Plessy was asked to sit where the white people do. The railroad took part in the act because the believe the act "imposed unnecessary cost via the purchase of the additional railroad cars." Plessy was told to get out of the "white only" section ,he refused and was arrested His lawyers told the judge that the act violated his rights of the thirteenth and fourteenth amendment. The court didn't agree and Plessy was convicted.

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it said that separate but, equal is okay.blacks continued to be treated unequally until brown vs board of education.

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The court came to a conclusion that the state law was in fact constitutional. Justice Brown said that the 14th amendment intended to establish equality for the races before the law, but separate treatment didn't imply the inferority of African Americans

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Sound Smart: Plessy v. Ferguson | History

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Hommer Plessy violated the 14th amendment and was sent to trail.The court decided that Hommer violted this act.

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Does the separate car act violate the fourteenth amendment

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separate treatment didn't imply the inferiority of African Americans

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separate but equal is okay .Blacks continued to be treated unfairly