"Plessy vs. Ferguson(1896) What's to be said" After courts deciding what is right from wrong, and putting the bad in jail, its what courts are there to do, right. Well in the case of Plessy vs. Ferguson in 1892,, the Supreme Court was involved because of Plessy taking what he thought was wrong and violating the 13th and 14th amendment: The 13th amendment banned slavery, and the 14th amendment required that the government treat people equally. …
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…th and 14th amendments because of the inequality of colored men and white men. This showed the while Plessy was trying to get himself cleared of what he had done the court ruled over Ferguson, because the Separate Car Act was constitutional, and gave a new view to everything. Colored and Whites riding in different colored vehicles is put onto the black codes because its setting aside rights for blacks to share vehicles with whites.