Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

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.
• All of the above

True or False: The “Separate Car Act” required “separate but equal” train cars for Blacks and Whites.

• True

• False

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

• right to vote

• right to bear arms

• equal protection under the law

• right to free speech

These were any type of law that discriminated against people based on race.

• 14th Amendment

• Jim Crow laws

• federal laws

• state laws

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

The Plessy decision of "Separate but Equal" was not overturned until what famous case decided by the Supreme Court?

• Worcester v. Georgia

• Marbury v. Madison

• Dred Scott

• Brown v. Board of Education

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