Plessy vs Ferguson : A Landmark case While I was researching the Plessy Vs Ferguson case I found many interesting facts.
Plessy's life before the case was an average life he had many jobs . He worked as a shoemaker ,an insurance agent and clerk ,and he stepped onto the stage of history in June 1892 (Cassimere). One major problem he had in life was his race, he was considered to be Plessy was an “octoroon”—a person who had one black great-grandparent (Cassimere). He was only considered to be ⅛ black and his skin was so light that it was barely noticeable .The only reason he was considered to have any black was because his great grandfather was partially black which caused the community to group Plessy into the black segregation (Cassimere)
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He was a wealthy white man and showed it. When he had boarded the train he was in a black tux and it was an 86 degree day but Plessy was also in a tux so he could not say anything (Cates). The case was significant to the impact of black, lives because even though this case had not changed anything it made many new cases evolve and those cases changed the lives of blacks .The specific case had not changed much during the start of the case they were already siding for one side .Plessy did not really have a fair chance from the beginning. His trial was at risk from the very start his attorney was not really on his side during the trial his attorney broke a few laws to make Ferguson look better because the attorney was really on his side and had just lied to Plessy.
Another reason the trial was not honorable was that the Jury was hand picked and you could tell it was very biased based on the ratio of the white to black race .One major case that had happened because of the Plessy Vs Ferguson case is the Brown Vs Board trial which did change many black lives for the better.But in the end this case did no satisfaction to black lives, and did not change a single thing in the community the “separate but equal “was still to be enforced by the white and not broken by the