In 1890, Louisiana carried out a law that enacted “separate but equal” railway cars for blacks and whites on railroads which was called the Separate Car Act. In 1892, the passenger Homer Plessy, who was one-eighths black and seven-eighths white, sat in a “whites only” car on a Louisiana train. Refusing to move to the black car, he was arrested and jailed for a charge of violating the Separate Car Act. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court. The question was “Is Louisiana’s law authorizing racial segregation on its trains an unconstitutional violation on the rights and entitlements and the equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment?”…