Plessy V Ferguson
Background:
In1890 a Louisiana law commanded the railroad to "provide equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored
races." Violation of this law carried a fine of $20 or 25 days in jail. Railway personnel were responsible for assigning seats according to race. Homer Plessy, who was one-eighth black, attempted to sit in the white section of a train going from New Orleans to Covington, Louisiana. When a conductor ordered Plessy to give up his seat, he refused. He was then arrested and ordered imprisoned by Ferguson, a local judge. On appeal, the Louisiana Supreme Court found that the statute under
which Plessy had been arrested was valid.
Question:
Was Louisiana's Separate Car Act constitutional? Plessy appealed to the United States Supreme Court on the grounds that Louisiana's statute violated the Thirteenth
Amendment, which forbids slavery, and the Fourteenth Amendment, which prohibits the states from denying "to any
person within its jurisdiction the equal......
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