What was the main argument of Plessy in Plessy v. Ferguson?

1 Answer
Apr 6, 2017

It was the separate but equal theory, it legalized segregation.

Explanation:

Omer Plessy was a man who was one eigth Black and he suited the State of Louisiana for having to sit in the Black Compartment in 1896,he contested the Segregation system that was set up after the Civil War with the so-called Jim Crow laws.

The Jim Crow laws were approved by the Supreme Court since they claimed that they provided equal rights by providing separate facilities in which Black people could actually travel just like white people.