president, and provided African Americans with equal opportunities and rights among many other things (Hynson 68).
Two court cases that were key in advancing the civil rights movement and beginning the transition towards equality between blacks and whites were the cases of Plessy vs. Ferguson and Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka. The case of Plessy vs. Ferguson began when Homer Plessy, who was one-eighths African American, bought a railroad ticket and sat in the white car, when asked to move, he refused. Homer Plessy was arrested and found guilty in Louisiana’s U.S. District Court; this prompted the case of Plessy vs. Ferguson (Killcoyne 34-35). In 1896, the case of Plessy vs. Ferguson concluded, and the Supreme Court ruled that segregation
Two court cases that were key in advancing the civil rights movement and beginning the transition towards equality between blacks and whites were the cases of Plessy vs. Ferguson and Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka. The case of Plessy vs. Ferguson began when Homer Plessy, who was one-eighths African American, bought a railroad ticket and sat in the white car, when asked to move, he refused. Homer Plessy was arrested and found guilty in Louisiana’s U.S. District Court; this prompted the case of Plessy vs. Ferguson (Killcoyne 34-35). In 1896, the case of Plessy vs. Ferguson concluded, and the Supreme Court ruled that segregation