Trial- Reaction Post

Plessey V Fergeson (1856): Plessey was a light skinned gentleman who lived in a white society and bought a ticket for first class white cars. The train cars called the cops and got him a ticket for violating the segregated train cars. This caused a trial because a law was violated, but ultimately winning the trial.

                                            

• Ariel: The reconstruction era was supposed to help support the black community and this trial is proof that this is no longer being exercised. Later on during the era, we learn there are more ways the government is slipping the support through their fingers and making black citizens have more rights, but they were less available to them. 

• Evan: There were many people who were affected by the emotional distraught that the reconstruction era brought to us. Not just black citizens, but the white people in support of equal rights. This is tearing our country apart which is setting the country back. 

• Lindsay: This case does not support the legal system of equality and the client (Pleesey) was legally justified in his actions because he is only ⅛ black. The train cart segregation was a separate but equal action that needed to be brought to legal attention. 

• Casen: Segregating train cars is unethical and negatively affecting the economy. The operation costs are increasing unnecessarily with two different costs. They are also contributing to air pollution with the extra amount of coal being released into the environment. Two different systems are contributing to the longer waits for construction and are decreasing revenue in terms of a business. 

• Abby A: The segregation in the south is unconstitutional as not all men are being treated equally. Our nation was built on principles and we fear that we are setting back our country's history by many years and won't be taken seriously in terms of other countries' views. The 14th Amendment was violated during this case, which is held to create equal rights for all. 

  

• Clara: Slavery ended mostly before the reconstruction eras, but that unfortunately led to separate but equal laws such as Jim Crow laws, black codes and more. These laws ultimately led to the case because of how the state of Lousianna had not yet had a case discussing these laws.

• Sam: Pleesey knew what he was doing and knew he was going to be in trouble for identifying as a black citizen and buying a ticket to the white train cars. The separate but equal doctrine is in support of this and legally is defined, the social rules are not. This law is justified and therefore Pleesey deserves the punishment he received for violating this law. The 14th Amendment was there to help support the law abiding black citizens, not the social laws that the citizens came up with. 

• Hudson: States right argument was used by the white people who said each state is bound to make their own laws regarding equal rights. Each state was allowed to handle the conflict and violations their own way and not have it not go up to the supreme court. 

• Julia: Economy relies on slavery in the south to keep the cost and environment at the rates they need to be at. Slave are a huge asset to the American economy which defends the law for treating the slaves this way and segregating them is a way to help prevent that.