The first major legal challenge of the Jim Crow laws was the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) for his removal from the car on a train all the way to the high court, which ultimately decided that "separate but equal" accommodations for African Americans and whites weren't discriminatory. The US Supreme Court ruled that under the Constitution (14th and 15th Amendments) African Americans had political rights, but social rights were not required. According to the court, as long as facilities were equal for both races they could be separate. This ruling helped to enforce the Jim Crow laws and acceptable in the US. There were African Americans such as W.E. Dubois a African American writer and activist during the Jim Crow Era who
