Louisiana law in 1890, commanded railroads to "provide equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races". If this law was violated, there was a fine of twenty dollars of twenty five days in jail. Plessy, a man who was one-eighth black, sat in the white section of the train going from New Orleans to Covington, Louisiana. When ordered to move from his seat, he refused to move, then was arrested. Louisiana Supreme Court found that the statue under which Plessy had been arrested was valid.
I don't agree with the decision. When there is segregation it is implying inferiority of a race in my view. If you have segregation, then it implies that races cant intermingle. This case paved way for racial equality and made it so everyone was considered equal. I think it is good that we don't have laws about segregation because it is not fair to people who have no choice.
Seperate but equal isn't fair. Why can't two people of different races share the same water fountain. To me it is just two different people but back then it was considered much worse. I don't think seperate but equal is fair and I don't think people of the court were fair. People of the court need to people the type of people to promote change, not stay the same. Justice Brown labeled inferioty of other races because of segregation as fallacy. I disagree with this because I think segregation is makes people feel inferior.
This trial paved way for more change in later years. This paved way for Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. People needed change and this sparked the idea that everyone is created equal. It was unfair to Plessy that this had to happen to him but if it didn't, no one would have noticed the unfairness of the law at the time.
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