Plessy v. Ferguson

Plessy v. Ferguson was an argument from a black male who entered a whites only train car. Technically he was 1/8th black making him a black man in an all whites train car, but also this was something that needed to happen in order for segregation to come to a halt. The hate and cruelty given to black people at this time was wrong. Giving another race, that was oppressed constantly, an inferior train car is wrong. So no matter how wrong the law is it was still broken. Being 1/8th black as little as it is would technically make him a black man. So he was in the wrong lawfully, but morally he was not. The lawyers who paid him to take this charge and tried to make sure that they won this case based on his rights, were trying to invoke change in their society and trying to make a better world where people are not separate, but they're together and equal. They are pushing for an integrated society. The real fight wasn't for this integrated society though. The real fight and the more realistic fight at the time, was the fight to really have all equal facilities. They were trying to make regulations for black facilities making them have to be of the same standard as whites because they would never truly be separate but equal if they aren't provided the same facilities with all the same quality. There would never be true equality between the two groups of people until black people started being given similar if not exactly the same quality of their facilities.

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