Plessy vs. Ferguson

What was the main question put before the Supreme Court in the Plessy vs Ferguson case?

• Did the Separate Car Law violate the 13th Amendment by stopping black people from having their freedom? 

• Did the Separate Car Law prevent black people from their constitutional right to vote?

• Did the Separate Car Law violate the constitutional rights of African Americans  guaranteed by the 14th Amendment? 

Homer Plessy was trying to challenge segregation laws in the south

• True

• False

Plessy won his case.

• False

• True

The Supreme Court said that the separate car law did not violate the "equal protection" clause of the 14th Amendment because it did not treat one race as inferior to the other.

• True

• False

In 1954, what Supreme Court case overturned (reversed) the decision of Plessy vs Ferguson, now saying that separate was inherently (fundamentally) unequal?

•  Brown vs. Board of Education 

• Dred Scott vs. Sandford

• Miranda vs. Arizona

• Plessy vs. Ferguson