The first law passed in 1890 that separated facilities for blacks and whites in public, specifically railway cars.
What is the Separate Car Act?
100
The judges (7-1) determined that Plessy broke the law.
What is the final vote in the case?
100
The two amendments Plessy used that were denied in court because the Supreme Court didn’t see how they violated it.
What are the 13th and 14th Amendments?
100
Congress can’t make a law respecting an establishment of religion abridging the freedom of speech or of the press.
What is the First Amendment?
200
The group that worked to get the Separate Car Act abolished; Plessy was a part of this group.
What is the Committee of Citizens?
200
They reasoned that according to the Fourteenth Amendment, the Louisiana railway company didn't break any law.
What is the court's reasoning for their decision?
200
This case helped establish the legal justification of separate but equal.
What is the Plessy vs. Ferguson case?
200
No soldier shall be quartered in any house without consent of the owner nor in time of war but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
What is the Third Amendment?
300
These amendments were denied to Plessy when he was forced to move to a blacks-only railway car.
What are the 13th and 14th Amendments?
300
The court rejected Plessy's arguments on this date.
What is May 18,1896?
300
The Judicial Review decided that the state of Louisiana wasn't breaking any laws according to this amendment, because they didn't think Plessy's arrest was violating basic human rights.
What is the 14th Amendment?
300
The right to legal representation in all felony prosecutions in both state and federal courts.
What is the Sixth Amendment?
400
Plessy was arrested on this date because he refused to switch to the blacks-only railway car.
What is June 7th, 1892?
400
The person who prepared the state legal brief for the case; he was also trying to restore white supremacy.
Who is Attorney General Milton Joseph Cunningham?
400
Who was the man that wrote the Supreme Court a letter stating how they are being unconstitutional by not siding with Plessy?
Who is John Marshall Harlan?
400
The principles of separation of powers and federalism by providing that powers not granted to the federal government by the Constitution, nor prohibited to the states, are reserved to the states or the people.