The14th Amendment was intended to correct the moral wrongs of slavery. But it has been misunderstood and reinterpreted in cases involving workdays, schools, train cars and birth control.

The 14th Amendment has been about much more than birthright citizenship. ... Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896. Advertisement. Homer Adolph Plessy, who was seven-eighths White and one-eighth African ...

During oral arguments, Albion W. Tourgée, Plessy’s attorney, told the court that the law was unconstitutional and that it flew in the face of the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause.

In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) ... In a 7-1 ruling, the Court established that the Fourteenth Amendment was designed to enforce racial equality, not to eliminate the distinction based on color.

Was Plessy v. Ferguson the right decision after ... dissented against the court’s narrow interpretation of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment and correctly predicted that the ruling would plant ...

The 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision led to widespread segregation through the establishment of Southern laws and social customs known as “Jim Crow.” ...

Plessy v. Ferguson Share ... "The object of the Fourteenth Amendment was undoubtedly to enforce the absolute equality ... That would not change until 1954, when the Court decided in Brown v.

Federal courts acted quickly to render the 14th Amendment a hollow promise, culminating in Plessy v. Ferguson’s 1896 holding that “equal protection” means nothing more than ensuring that ...

NEW ORLEANS — When Homer Plessy, commissioned by the Citizens Committee, refused to move from a white's only railway car to the blacks-only car, he was arrested and convicted of violating the ...

The justices argued that neither the Thirteenth or Fourteenth amendment was violated with Plessy’s arrest. On the Thirteenth amendment issue the Supreme Court ruled: “The Thirteenth Amendment ...

Homer Plessy, of Plessy v. Ferguson, ... He argued that the 14th Amendment “could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social ...