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In 1892, Homer Plessy - who was seven eights Caucasian - agreed to participate in a test to challenge the Separate Car Act.  (Which was the Act that separated whites on train cars and blacks on train cars). He was solicited by the Committee des Citoyens. They asked who was technically black; to sit in a "whites only" car of Louisiana train. At trial, Plessy's lawyers argued that this act violated the Fourteenth Amendment. {Trial decided on May 18, 1896}.

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The issue of Plessy v  Furguson is if the Separate Car Act violate the fourteenth amendment?

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Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. The case stemmed from an 1892 incident in which African-American train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a car for blacks.

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The immediate and long-term effects allowed 'separate but equal'. They decided to allow segregation to become a law in the United States. Plessy v. Ferguson was the first major inquiry into the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment's [1868] equal-protection clause; (which prohibits the states from denying or rejecting "equal protection of the laws" to any person within their jurisdiction.

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Plessy v. Ferguson Summary | quimbee.com