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This 3 page research paper addresses the US Supreme Court decision in this landmark 1896 case. The writer argues that while it resulted initially in oppression for African Americans in the form of Jim Crow laws, eventually the groundwork laid by this case resulted in the success of the Civil Rights movement. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Plessy v. Ferguson/Outcomes of this Precedent
Research Compiled By - properly! On June
7, 1892, Homer Plessy was arrested for challenging Louisianas Separate Car Act in a deliberate act of civil disobedience aimed at contesting the constitutionality of "that infamous contrivance known as
the Jim Crow Law" (Medley 13). Considerable gains in civil rights for black Americans had been gained during the Reconstruction era; however, the states were abolishing the "suffrage and equal-access
gains" of the Reconstruction period through the institution of Jim Crow laws, such as the Louisiana law (Medley 14). It was the hope of the 18 members of the Comite
de Citoyens (Committee of Citizens) backing Plessys protest that the Supreme Court would block the dissolution of these rights; however, this was not to be. The outcomes that can be
associated with the precedent-setting decision in Plessy v. Ferguson resulted in a series of negative outcomes for African Americans. However, on closer scrutiny, it can be argued that Plessys act
of civil disobedience constitutes the first step in the battle for African American civil rights. In Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), the U.S. Supreme Court issued a
landmark decision that upheld racial segregation by private businesses as constitutional (Plessy v. Ferguson). In the majority opinion, Justice Henry B. Brown indicated that the Courts decision was based
on the "separate-but-equal doctrine," that is, that when separate but equal facilities were provided for whites and blacks, this satisfied the requirements of the Fourteenth Amendment (Plessy v. Ferguson).
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