https://padlet.com/0371967/ii2nvjsbm4o4 Landmark Supreme Court Case Summary en-us 2019-03-06 19:01:32 UTC 2026-01-05 17:03:36 UTC hello@padlet.com 0371967 https://padlet.com/0371967/ii2nvjsbm4o4/wish/338565100 2019-03-06 19:11:55 UTC https://padlet.com/0371967/ii2nvjsbm4o4/wish/338565100 0428917 https://padlet.com/0371967/ii2nvjsbm4o4/wish/338566646 2019-03-06 19:14:29 UTC https://padlet.com/0371967/ii2nvjsbm4o4/wish/338566646 0428917 https://padlet.com/0371967/ii2nvjsbm4o4/wish/338568401 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}.]]> 2019-03-06 19:17:32 UTC https://padlet.com/0371967/ii2nvjsbm4o4/wish/338568401 0371967 https://padlet.com/0371967/ii2nvjsbm4o4/wish/338568685 The issue of Plessy v  Furguson is if the Separate Car Act violate the fourteenth amendment?]]> 2019-03-06 19:18:01 UTC https://padlet.com/0371967/ii2nvjsbm4o4/wish/338568685 0371967 https://padlet.com/0371967/ii2nvjsbm4o4/wish/338571005 2019-03-06 19:22:18 UTC https://padlet.com/0371967/ii2nvjsbm4o4/wish/338571005 0371967 https://padlet.com/0371967/ii2nvjsbm4o4/wish/339115733 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.]]> 2019-03-07 22:19:52 UTC https://padlet.com/0371967/ii2nvjsbm4o4/wish/339115733 0428917 https://padlet.com/0371967/ii2nvjsbm4o4/wish/339249592 2019-03-08 11:33:37 UTC https://padlet.com/0371967/ii2nvjsbm4o4/wish/339249592 0428917 https://padlet.com/0371967/ii2nvjsbm4o4/wish/339249801 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.]]> 2019-03-08 11:34:32 UTC https://padlet.com/0371967/ii2nvjsbm4o4/wish/339249801 0371967 https://padlet.com/0371967/ii2nvjsbm4o4/wish/339417276 2019-03-08 18:10:20 UTC https://padlet.com/0371967/ii2nvjsbm4o4/wish/339417276