The United States Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal" took place in 1896 known as the Plessy vs Ferguson act.
The Plessy V. Ferguson did not make it to where blacks and whites had all the same rights, but at the time, they thought that it was a good decision. Little did they know, less than a hundred years later would we be trying to integrate white and black schools. It came from an incident in 1892 in which african american train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a Jim Crow train car, breaking a law in Louisiana. Plessy's lawyer argued that the Separate Car Act violated the 13th and 14th Amendments. In 1896,
The Plessy V. Ferguson did not make it to where blacks and whites had all the same rights, but at the time, they thought that it was a good decision. Little did they know, less than a hundred years later would we be trying to integrate white and black schools. It came from an incident in 1892 in which african american train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a Jim Crow train car, breaking a law in Louisiana. Plessy's lawyer argued that the Separate Car Act violated the 13th and 14th Amendments. In 1896,