This case came when an african american (homer plessy) was riding a train and refused to sit in a jim crow car which he was breaking a louisiana law. Plessy argued that his constitutional rights were being violated but the state claimed that “it just merely implies a legal distinction” and that it didn't conflict with the 13th and 14th amendment. Restrictive legislation based on race continued until the case of brown v the board of education. This came from the state of louisiana adopting the law for equal but separate accommodations for white and colored races. The court sided that the laws of separate but equal did not go against the 13th amendment.the 14th Amendment that forbids the states to make laws depriving citizens of their privileges or immunities but the 14th Amendment, the Court said, was “to enforce the absolute equality of the two races before the laws, Laws, requiring their separation, do not necessarily imply the inferiority of either race.” The court believed the separation was legal long as they were equal even but the problem was they weren't equal when they were seperated.

-Riley Edwards