No, cause they saw them as free and equals even though they were separated, the state-supported this then the Supreme Court “supported” this more like they did not see it as a violation of the amendments this case was the Plessy v. Ferguson decision upheld the principle of racial segregation and until the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas where State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was unconstitutional