英语国家社会与文化 课件 Plessy v Ferguson.pptVIP

* * Plessy v. Ferguson Louisiana Separate Car Act (1890): equal but separate accommodations” $25 20 days in jail PENALTY Homer Plessy 30, shoemaker 7/8white; 1/8black colored car 1892 Judge John Howard Ferguson unconstitutional on trains that traveled through several states. Ferguson found Plessy guilty of refusing to leave the white car. In 1896, the Supreme Court of the United States found Homer Plessy guilty once again. Justice Henry Brown, the speaker for the eight-person majority, wrote: That [the Separate Car Act] does not conflict with the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slav