Demolition of Equality Between Races in Plessy Versus Ferguson Case

A thirty-year-old shoemaker makes a history-altering decision on Tuesday, June 7, 1892, when he will be purchasing a train ticket to board the East Louisiana Local to purposely sit in the whites-only section. The man of the hour is Homer Plessy, and although he was the one who committed the act it was by no means his idea. To start from the beginning of the situation at hand, all should look at Louisiana for deciding to enact the separate car act. The separate car act simply made it law that blacks and whites would now have separate railway cars, right? Not at all the case, but this was probably the thought process of the people in charge of some parts of congress at the time, which paints a pretty vivid picture of how the leaders of this society were handling the situation.

Soon after the Comite des Citoyens(Committee of Citizens) took action, these people were a group of residents who wanted to repeal the act in question(separate car act). The CC commenced their plan by asking Homer Plessy, who was considered black at the time in Louisiana though he was seven-eighths Caucasian to sit in a train for whites only. At this time even the railroad corporated in the plan, continuing to show that the separate car act was probably just to please the prejudice in society, Though this is not to say that they did not hold the majority in the situation but to further prove the corruption in the environment was real. Homer Plessy boarded the train and took his seat, then like clockwork the conductors start to ask each person if they are a “colored man” as required by Louisiana's separate car act. As Homer was seven-eighths caucasian nobody would be able to tell that he was even partly black, but that was not the plan, this is to say that Plessy instead of taking the easy way out would be one of the first to challenge civil rights and pave the way to equality.

Surprisingly it takes around twenty minutes for Homer Plessy to get forcibly removed from the train which causes quite the scene. If you compare that twenty minutes to how long it takes to finally get the case to the supreme court then it's practically nothing but that is all in perspective. It takes a total of four years to reach the supreme court and luckily Plessy was not alone this whole time. He had the help of the organization, known as The Comite Des Citoyens who had a vast amount of professional individuals well really just 18 people but these individuals were not just anyone you would find on the street. This group encompassed writers, civil libertarians,ex-union soldiers and even the former Louisiana state governor just to name a few and together they would question whether this newly created act was against the thirteenth and fourteenth amendment.

The thirteenth amendment abolished slavery and servitude and very clearly could not be applied in this scenario. Aside from as a discipline for wrongdoing, it is unreasonably clear for contention. Subjection infers automatic subjugation - a condition of servitude; the responsibility for as an asset, or if nothing else the control of the work and administrations of one man to assist another, and the nonattendance of a legitimate right to the transfer of his individual, property, and administrations. This alteration was said in the Slaughterhouse Cases, 16 Divider. 36, to have been planned fundamentally to abrogate subjugation as it had been recently known in this nation, and that it similarly disallowed Mexican peonage or the Chinese coolie exchange when they added up to bondage or automatic subjugation, and that the utilization of 'bondage' was expected to preclude the utilization of all types of automatic subjection, of whatever class or name. It was implied, notwithstanding, all things considered that this correction was respected by the statesmen of that day as inadequate to shield the shaded race from specific laws which had been sanctioned in the Southern States, forcing upon the hued race burdensome inabilities and troubles and reducing their privileges in the quest forever, freedom and property to such a degree, that their opportunity was of little worth; and that the Fourteenth Amendment was contrived to meet this exigency.

Along these lines, as well, in the Social equality Cases, 109 U.S. 3, 24, it was said that the demonstration of an insignificant individual, the proprietor of a motel, an open transport or spot of entertainment, denying facilities to minorities individuals can't be legitimately viewed as forcing any identification of subjugation or bondage upon the candidate, but just as including common damage, appropriately cognizable by the laws of the State and apparently subject to review by those laws until the opposite shows up. 'It would destroy the bondage contention,' said Mr. Equity Bradley, to cause it to apply to each demonstration of segregation which an individual may want to make with regards to the visitors he will engage, or with regards to the individuals he will take into his mentor or taxi or vehicle, or admit to his show or theater, or manage in different issues of intercourse or business. A resolution which suggests only a legitimate differentiation between the white and shaded races - a qualification which is established in the shade of the two races and which should consistently exist inasmuch as white men are recognized from the other race by shading - tends to demolish the lawful fairness of the two races, or restore a condition of automatic subjugation. In reality, we don't comprehend that the Thirteenth Amendment is strenuously depended upon by the offended party in mistake in this association.