For more than 50 years, the southern states of the United States had a policy of separate housing for blacks and whites on buses and trains, as well as in hotels, theaters and schools. In 1890, the Louisiana state legislature proposed the Separate Car Bill which separated blacks from whites on separate but equal terms on rail cars. Violations of the law were considered a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $25 or imprisonment for twenty days. Even though blacks were superficially granted their rights, many still disagreed with the decision and felt that the separation of blacks and whites in public facilities created inequality and marked one race as inferior to another. Homer Plessy, seven-eighths of whom are of Caucasian descent. and one-eighth of African descent attempted to sit in an all-white railroad car in 1896. After refusing to sit in the black railroad car, Plessy was arrested for violating the Louisiana Separate Car Act, which required all railroads operating in the state to provide "equal but separate accommodations" for white and African-American passengers, it prohibited passengers from entering accommodations other than those to which they had been assigned. been affected because of their race. Plessy went to court and argued that segregated cars violated the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution, which sought to abolish slavery and impose absolute equality of both races under the law. The judge at that time was John Howard Ferguson; he declared that Louisiana had the right to regulate railroad companies as long as they operated within state borders. Plessy was found guilty and ordered to pay a $25 fine. Plessy decided to appeal the decision to... middle of paper ......y face the more fundamental question of whether the separation of whites and blacks was an inherently discriminatory act that by nature , guaranteed unequal treatment. In Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, the Court overturned the Plessy decision, stating, in a now-famous phrase: "Separate educational institutions are inherently unequal." » My view on this particular case is on the side of Plessy rather than Ferguson. I believe in total equality and the idea of ​​no difference between human beings. There should be no distinction between what is meant for the white man and what is meant for the black man. Public institutions should be used by everyone together, and riding in a train car should not be a racial issue. I also agree that this segregation was a violation of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments in that it did not promote the idea of ​​equality between the races..