Ferguson Vs Plessy

2.) Black people challenged the law by enlisting the support of a black man who was almost indistinguishable from a white person. 1892 Homer A. Plessy bought a first class ticket and attempted to ride on a coach designated for whites only. Plessy was only one eighth black, and was arrested for violation of the law. In the case Plessy vs. Ferguson, Plessy’s lawyers argued that the segregation deprived him of his rights of equal protection of the law guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. Later the Supreme Court ruling upheld the Louisiana segregation statute, a 8-1 decision. Justice Henry Brown ruled that the law required separation of the races, and did not deny Plessy his rights, nor implied that he was inferior. After the ruling by the Supreme Court, the Fourteenth Amendment no longer gave black Americans the right of equal treatment under the law.
3.) The Freedmen’s Bureau was created by Congress in 1865 to assist destitute black and whites southerners after the Civil War. It was a temporary agency used to assist freedmen to make transition to freedom, placed under control of the Army, and General Oliver O. Howard. The
Freedmen’s Bureau consisted of no more than 900 agents spread across the South from Virginia to Texas. A smallpox epidemic spread through the South, and the Bureau tried to provide medical
They transformed into a terrorist group during Reconstruction to drive black and white Republicans from political power in the southern states. They were also known as the knights of the White Camellia, the White Brotherhood, and the White Caps. The Klan resorted to threats, intimidation, beatings, rapes, and murder to force blacks into subordination. They only functioned were blacks were a large minority and where their votes could affect elections. The Klan violence was effective in helping democrats carry the 1870 legislative elections in North