Ferguson Plessy Case Analysis

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Since when has color mattered? A better question,when it not? Eve-Paterson-CEO and CO-founder of Equal Justice Society Said,” Race is the taboo in our society,we are afraid to talk about it. White Folks fear their unspoken views will be deemed racist. People of colour are filled with sorrow and rage at unrighted wrongs. Drowning in silence,we are brothers and sisters drowning each other. Once we decide to transform ourselves from fearful caterpillars into courageous butterflies,we will be able to bridge the racial gulf and move forward together towards a bright and colorful future,” since the beginning of history discrimination based on race has been repetitive,and whether it is morally right or not has been a question.Racism is …show more content…
Ferguson. Publisher weekly 16). Tourgee Believed in equality and was pleased to defend Plessy in court. Plessy Maintained his innocence up to the Supreme Court (“June 7,1892”). Plessy’s case went to trial a month after his arrest and Tourgee argued that Plessy’s civil rights under the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution had been violated. His case number was 19117. On October 11,1892,Homer Plessy received notification that he was to appear before Judge Ferguson (McNeese 88). Over the next four years,Plessy’s case would work its way through the legal system until it landed on the steps of the United states Supreme Court. While Judge John Ferguson had once ruled against separate cars for interstate railroad travel (different states had various outlooks on segregation),he ruled against Plessy in this case because he believed that the state had a right to set segregation policies within its own boundaries. Tourgee took the case to the Louisiana Supreme Court,which upheld Ferguson decision. In 1896 the Plessy vs Ferguson case was reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court. The Supreme Court also ruled against Plessy with an eighth person majority. Justice Hengry Brown …show more content…
Schools public facilities, restaurants, hotel, theaters, public transportation, etc. adopted the "separate but equal" policy to segregation African American away from whites and in most cares, make the best facilities inaccessible to use (pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_plessy). Finally, the "separate but equal" doctrine was struck down in1954 with the Brown vs. Boardpf Education decision. Yet discrimination, inequality, and injustice still remain. In conclusion, although the Separate Car Act was eventually removed, and the case of Plessy V. Ferguson was not a complete fail, racism still prevail. Nelson Mandela supported this saying, "No one born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite." Bob Marley once said "Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everything is
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