Plessy v. Ferguson
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On May 18th, 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the court decision of "separate but equal" in the Plessy v. Ferguson case. In 1892, Homer Plessy, a New Orleans man with 7/8ths white and 1/8 black, violated then Louisiana's state law of the Separate Car Act which required separate railroad accommodations for white passengers and no-white passengers. Plessy pleaded not guilty in which the Separate Car Act violated his 13th and 14th Amendment rights which required equal treatment under the U.S. Constitution. The judge presiding over the case, John Howard Ferguson, ruled that the state had the right to regulate railroad regulations under state law. The Plessy v Ferguson case is widely known for it being 'separate but equal.'
