Plessy v. Ferguson

      Homer Plessy, a man who was one-eighth black, took a risk to sit in the "white section" of the train in Louisiana during 1890. Being only one-eight black, he strongly felt it was okay to sit in the front, however the conductor would say otherwise. He was immediately arrested for refusing to move out of the seat, and was declared imprisonment by Ferguson, a local judge in the Louisiana Supreme Court. Plessy argued that Louisiana's statue violated the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments. However Ferguson ended up winning the case.
    Justice Brown brought attention to "fallacy" during Plessy's case and declared African-American controlled legislature may enact similar laws to the law that Louisiana has. Justice Brown's believed Louisiana's argument was unreasonable because the United States Constitution could not put them in the same area. African Americans are the ones that were ordered to move, not the whites. This was an "underlying fallacy" in Plessy's case, which led to his loss.
     Regardless that Ferguson won, I believe this was an extremely significant court case because it gave a legal standing to the idea of separate but equal. It informed the public how segregation didn't have that much equality. Since segregation was continuously growing in the south, this case triggered the spark of Americans relating.