Plessy v. Ferguson

In 1890, Plessy refused to give up his seat on a section of a train in New Orleans Louisiana. Even though he was only 1/8th black, he was arrested and ordered to be imprisoned by Ferguson, a local judge. Plessy appealed to the US Supreme Court on the thirteenth and fourteenth amendments, which forbade slavery and gave everyone equal protection of the laws respectively.
The court ruled that the 13'th amendment issue about a legal distinction between white and colored people "had no tendency to destroy the legal equality of the two races." For the fourteenth amendment issue, Justice Henry Brown argued in favor of absolute racial equality before the law. The court decided that segregation laws were a matter of public policy, not a violation of the fourteenth amendment. I do not agree with the court's decision, where segregation was still excepted. The whole issue seems backwards