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What was the outcome of the Plessy v Ferguson case?
When Judge John H. Ferguson ruled against him, Plessy applied to the State Supreme Court for a writ of prohibition and certiorari. Although the court upheld the state law, it granted Plessy’s petition for a writ of error that would enable him to appeal the case to the Supreme Court.
What was the case of Plessy v Tourgée?
In the Criminal District Court for the Parish of Orleans, Tourgée argued that the law requiring “separate but equal accommodations” was unconstitutional. When Judge John H. Ferguson ruled against him, Plessy applied to the State Supreme Court for a writ of prohibition and certiorari.
What was Homer Plessy’s case called?
A man named Homer Plessy was active in civil rights efforts, and he challenged this law. He was arrested and put on trial; his case went all the way to the Supreme Court in a case known as Plessy v. Ferguson and the court decided to maintain the practice of having separate but equal facilities.
What was the case of Plessy v Louisiana?
The information filed in the criminal district court charged, in substance, that Plessy, being a passenger between two stations within the state of Louisiana, was assigned by officers of the company to the coach used for the race to which he belonged, but he insisted upon going into a coach used by the race to which he did not belong.
Plessy v. Ferguson At issue in Plessy v. Ferguson was an 1890 Louisiana law that required passenger trains operating within the state to provide “equal but separate” accommodations for “white and colored races.” The Supreme Court upheld the law by a 7–1 vote, in the process putting a stamp of approval on all laws that mandated racial segregation.
What is Ferguson?
FERGUSON. No. 210. May 18, 1896. This was a petition for writs of prohibition and certiorari originally filed in the supreme court of the state by Plessy, the plaintiff in error, against the Hon. John H. Ferguson, judge of the criminal district court for the parish of Orleans, and setting forth, in substance, the following facts:
What did the Supreme Court decide in Ferguson v Ferguson?
Ferguson (1896) was the seminal post-Reconstruction Supreme Court decision that judicially validated state sponsored segregation in public facilities by its creation and endorsement of the “separate but equal” doctrine as satisfying the Constitutional requirements provided in the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
What was the Plessy v Louisiana case?
In 1892, the state of Louisiana prosecuted Plessy, a man who was 7/8 Caucasian and 1/8 Black, for refusing to leave a passenger car designated for whites.