He was arrested on June 7, 1892 because he was a part of a preconceived challenge in Louisiana to test the Separate Car Law.
Who is Homer Plessy?
100
These laws required separate accommodations for African Americans and White Americans.
What are the Jim Crow laws?
100
This is the state Plessy was arrested in.
What is Louisiana?
100
1892
What is Plessy v. Ferguson case?
200
He was the lawyer/legal representative who argued that Plessy was denied his equal rights under the Fourteenth Amendment.
Who is Albion Tourgee?
200
This was the time period when states began enacting Jim Crow laws.
What is Reconstruction?
200
Black and white people were angry because segregation was going against this document.
What is the Constitution?
200
1896
What is the Supreme Court appeal?
300
He was the Supreme Court Justice who agreed with the majority and ruled against Plessy saying "separate, but equal accommodations" was acceptable.
Who is Henry Billings Brown?
300
A group of black professionals in 1890 were planning to challenge this act in New Orleans.
What is the Louisiana Separate Car Act?
300
They were the two Justices on the case, keeping the "separate but equal" ruling for almost sixty years.
Who are Ferguson and Brown?
300
1893
What is the state supreme court appeal?
400
He was the original judge presiding over the case in Louisiana who claimed that the state had complete rights to regulate railroad companies within state boundaries.
Who is John Howard Ferguson?
400
These amendments played a major role in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson.
What are the 13th and 14th Amendments?
400
Plessy was chosen to try to test the Louisiana segregation system in transportation because he could pass as this.
What is a white man?
400
1890
What is Louisiana Separate Car Act?
500
He questioned how constitutionally correct the Louisiana law was in that it appeared to treat blacks and whites equally, but did not.
Who is John Marshall Harlan?
500
White men argued they were in the same situation as the blacks because they were not allowed to ride the black railways. The majority said they did not consider blacks as this because of the situation.
What is inferior to whites?
500
Plessy and his men were trying to test the transportation system because a district court in Louisiana claimed segregation in railroad cars traveling between states was this.
What is unconstitutional?
500
In this year, Plessy pled guilty to the charges and paid the fine