Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States
Dig: A History Podcast
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The Supreme Court's Decision in Yikwu, the Hopkins, and Plessy
Yikwu was never applied to Jim Crow laws, which rested on Plessy v Ferguson. Justice Matthews denounced the law as a blatant attempt to exclude Chinese from the laundry trade in San Francisco. The court struck down the law, ordering dismissal of all charges against other laundry owners who had been jailed. In this way, they said that the separate but equal doctrine was okay, because it did not actually create a state of slavery only of difference.
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