Plessy v Ferguson

What southern state was Plessy in?

• Louisiana

• Texas

• Georgia

What did Homer Plessy do that got him arrested?

• Sat in the white only part of the bus.

• Took a seat in the white only car of a train.

• Sat at a white only section of a lunch counter.

The 14th amendment was to gave all U.S. citizens what?

• equal protection under the law

• citizenship by birth on U.S. land

• both of these

Plessy and the other members of his organization were trying to challenge

• the Brown v. Board of Education case

• Segregation and the Jim Crow laws

• Reconstruction

• equal pay for equal work

What famous phrase came out of the Plessy case?

• "Separate but equal"

• "Give me liberty or give me death."

• "By any means necessary"

Which court case overturned (changed) Plessy v. Ferguson and the idea of segregation?

• Dred Scott v. Sanford

• Tinker v. Des Moines

• Roe v. Wade

• Brown v. Board of Education

Homer Plessy wanted to try to get the courts to say that Jim Crow laws were _____________________________.

• separate but equal

• legal

• constitutional (in accordance with the 14th Amendment)

• unconstitutional (a violation of the 14th Amendment)

The U.S. Supreme Court saw the "Separate but Equal" law as constitutional?

• Yes

• No

One problem with the idea of "separate but equal" was that the separate facilities for black people were almost never truly _______________.

• national

• federal

• equal

• unequal

What did the Separate Car Act do?

• Said that all people should own their own car

• Forced blacks and whites to sit in same train car

• Segregated trains in Louisiana