Plessy V. Ferguson

On June, 7 1892, Homer Plessy bought a train ticket for a white train car in Louisiana. He was 1/8 black and did not want to sit in the black train car, as the white train cars were much nicer. He was arrested for such an act, and the litigation team that argued against Mr. Uckermark and me made a few convincing arguments that ultimately took legal precedence. I felt it was difficult to argue for a man that has any amount of black in his DNA at this time. Separate, but equal shows that, legally, Plessy could have still been served, the service just would have not been as good and neither would the condition of the train car he would have had to sit in. Morally, our arguments show that in fact the separate but equal clause is not equal, or fair. Due to earlier court cases, the case could not be in the favor of Plessy, regardless of if he was fully black, or only 1/8 black.