That [the Separate Car Act] does not conflict with the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery…is too clear for argument…A statute which implies merely a legal distinction between the white and colored races — a distinction which is founded in the color of the two races, and which must always exist so long as white men are distinguished from the other race by color — has no tendency to destroy the legal equality of the two races…The object of the [Fourteenth A]mendment was undoubtedly to enforce the absolute equality of the two races before the law, but in the nature of things it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social, as distinguished from political equality, or a commingling of the two races upon terms unsatisfactory to either.”

Separate facilities can still be equal. Therefore, separate facilities do not violate the Bill of Rights.

Thank goodness this was overturned by Brown v. Board of Education, which stated that separate was inherently unequal and therefore in conflict with the Bill of Rights.

Separate but equal is inherently equal.

Separate cars does not violate the 14th amendment (equal rights).