In the 20th century whites saw African Americans as a threat. Sharing railroads, public facilities, and having to work with blacks was an incompatible combination. Therefore, the south enforced a law called The Jim Crow Law, which legalized racial segregation. Blacks were restricted from using the same public and private facilities as whites. Both races were segregated into separate schools, transportation, bathrooms, drinking fountains, beaches and many more places. Later on, the Plessy vs. Ferguson case was established. This case developed when Plessy was arrested for refusing to leave an all-white car. Plessy is mainly white and one eighth black, but he was considered black under Louisiana’s law. Plessy was found guilty by judge Ferguson.
