The Case
This landmark Supreme Court case was decided in 1896.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Homer Plessy lived in this Louisiana city.
What is New Orleans?
This Louisiana law required separate railroad cars by race.
What is the Separate Car Act?
This amendment abolished slavery in 1865.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Race is described as this type of construct used to create social hierarchy.
What is a social construct?
This phrase became the key idea from the Supreme Court’s decision.
What is “Separate but Equal”?
This was Homer Plessy’s occupation.
What is a shoemaker?
The Separate Car Act was passed in this year.
What is 1890?
This amendment granted birthright citizenship in 1868.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Plessy v. Ferguson supported this system of racial dominance.
What is White supremacy?
This era began after the Court’s decision and lasted until 1954.
What is the Jim Crow Era?
This organization Plessy worked with helped challenge segregation laws.
What is the Committee of Citizens?
This rule said that even one drop of African American blood classified someone as Black.
What is the One Drop Rule?
This amendment gave citizens the right to vote regardless of race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
The legal system protected segregation for about this many years.
What is about 70 years?
This type of court case Plessy v. Ferguson was considered.
What is a landmark Supreme Court case?
Plessy challenged segregation laws on purpose to do this.
What is test (or challenge) the law?
Segregation affected these types of places besides railroads.
What are schools, restaurants, and public places?
The Reconstruction Amendments were passed after this war.
What is the Civil War?
This case legalized this system across the United States.
What is segregation?
This was the main issue challenged in the case.
What is racial segregation?
Plessy was Vice President of this organization.
What is the Justice, Protective, Educational, and Social Club?
Although facilities were supposed to be equal, in reality they were usually this.
What is unequal (or not equal)?
The 14th Amendment says if you are born in the U.S., you are this.
What is a citizen?
Plessy v. Ferguson was later overturned by this 1954 Supreme Court case.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?