plessy+vs+ferguson

Plessy v. Ferguson was one of the most important decisions about the use of the Thirteenth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment In the civil rights Cases 1883 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Congress did not have the power to remedy individual acts of racial discrimination that were not the result of state action. By contrast in Plessy v. Ferguson the Court upheld one of Louisiana's Jim Crow laws requiring that white and black passengers be seated in separate train cars. This law was challenged by Homer Plessy who was seven eighths white and one eighth black, after he was denied seating on a car reserved for whites witch created the separate but equal witch made there be separate schools church restauraunt buses and other uses of public transportation and parks. "//Plessy v. Ferguson// (1896)." //American History//.ABC-CLIO, 2012. Web. 29 Mar. 2012.