In the mock trial, the people on both teams had interesting ideas on how to handle the situation very much. Plessy v. Ferguson's trial talks about when Homer Plessy broke the law of boarding a first-class train cart since he was African-American. The defendant team had pointed out that the 14th amendment had been violated by this act of discrimination.
In the state of Louisiana, they had talked about having fear towards African-Americans which do not want to have much violence happening. Ferguson thinks that this arrest doesn’t violate any of their rights and there are train carts for blacks and whites to sit in which it is how it is. The points they had used were saying it doesn’t take away any of their rights for them.
The Louisiana law does violate everyone’s rights even the white people it shows that intent in the wording. This law can’t work well for society since it doesn’t make sense to have this way and be that way towards Homer Plessy who’s only ⅛ black which makes them considered a colored person even though he’s not a full-colored person. Even though he still broke the law and committed a crime which is wrongdoing.
The team that had won the verdict was by the state who had stronger points, but mostly the court supported them in that way because in that time period. It did teach me some ideals that people believed made a difference to that trial.
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/plessy-v-ferguson
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