Homer Plessy And The Separate Car Act

The "Separate Car Act" was a law passed in 1890, which prevented blacks from sitting with the whites. A man named Homer Adolph Plessy, who was one eighth black, was part of a group, formed in 1891, called the "New Orleans Citizens Committee to Test the Constitutionality of the Separate Car Law." Plessy was chosen to represent this group by taking action and testing the law. He took action on June 7, 1892, when Plessy bought a ticket to New Orleans on the Louisiana Railroad to go to New Orleans. Once he boarded the train, he was asked to go to the "coloreds only" car, but refused to go. He was later fined and jailed for this, and soon was taken to court. When his case was brought up at the Supreme Court, he unfortunately

Two parties’, The Citizen Committee and a group of blacks, wanted to challenge the Separate Car Act. The chose to have a thirty-year- old male board the white cars on the train. Homer Plessy, a citizen of the Unites States and one- eight black, was chosen the carry out their plan. After boarding the train, railroad

1) What were the legal issues in this case? What did the appeals court decide?

The poor Black sharecroppers were frequently browbeaten in their hard work to collect payment for their cotton crops. The whites didn’t like that the blacks were receiving a higher amount of wages than them, so the whites attacked such consolidation that was done by blacks, and the two groups swapped firing into the night. The two white men procured it upon themselves to show up, one was a deputy sheriff, and the other was a railroad employee who attended it. It was all after that, that the combat had taken place. The escorts who were standing shot one of the white men. It resulted in the death of one of the white officers. A black executor

Homer Plessy was a man who had ⅞ white in him was arrested for sitting in a whites only train car. He had a normal life he worked as a shoe maker. Homer Plessy was a that was arrested for sitting in a white only seat. When released from jail he challenged the law and end up making life harder on all african americans.

In the city of Longtown,Ohio,Founded by James Clemens,is a peaceful place where blacks and white did not discriminate each other, or at least it use to be. Now,the people of Longtown are fading from the world and White settlers are buying their land.Longtown was made by James Clemens,a freed slave from the state of Virginia, made this settlement so whites and blacks can live in harmony and peace together,but now that everyone is dying and settlers are buying their land, James’ great grandson,Connor Keiser, is trying to keep the way of life going or in other words Connor Keiser said,” We were the usual Longtown family. We all look different,and we were taught that color didn’t matter.As long as I have anything to do with it,Longtown

The struggle for equality has existed throughout history. The color of a person’s skin seems to depict everything about them. Not only was this an issue in earlier times, but the present as well. The battle to overcome inequity was made significantly more troublesome in the Plessy v. Ferguson case of 1896.

story of how a white man risked his life to defend a man of color to make sure he was treated

What was the court’s decision in the case? What reason did they give? What landmark case did they cite?

This story takes place pre civil rights movement in a time where racism was widely practiced on not just a

A landmark case in United States Law and the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States,

Throughout American history, no matter what time period, humans have been categorized, discriminated against, and treated according to their class, financial status, and race. Many concrete and obvious examples of this have appeared throughout the years, ranging from the Salem witch trials in the late 1600’s, all the way to the recent civil rights movements in the 1950’s and 60’s. Social history uses personal stories to show how class/status and race played a part in the way people were treated in America.

The life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination… the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself in exile in his own land (qtd. in W.T.L. 235).

In "to kill a mockingbird" a colored man is being accused of "abusing" a white woman. Atleast that is what people believed. The man stayed wuiet since he knew they would not believed his story. A respected lawyer stepped in the case to protect the colored man, he knew the man was being falsely accused. Eventhough colored individuals were not respected, he stepped in to do the right thing and defend the man in court. The lawyer saw the injustice and quickly took the case knowing it would cost his reputation.

One day in Sunday school, Richie had asked Reverend Owens if Jesus was white. Reverend Owens said no, and that Jesus was all colors. Richie was angry and questioned that if that was true, why was Jesus white in the picture in their Sunday school bible. Richie was frustrated that Jesus was portrayed as white, if in reality he was not. He said that if Jesus wasn’t black or white they should make him gray in the