What was the Supreme Courts decision in Plessy vs Ferguson?
In a 7 to 1 decision in which Mr. Justice Brewer did not participate, the Court rejected Plessy’s arguments based on the Thirteenth Amendment, seeing no way in which the Louisiana statute violated it. In addition, the majority of the Court rejected the view that the Louisiana law implied any inferiority of blacks, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. Instead, it contended that the law separated the two races as a matter of public policy.
