the Plessy v. ferguson court case
The Plessy v. Ferguson Court Case was a controversial matter that ended with the public segregation of blacks and whites. Plessy was a black man who had decided to sit in the white car of a Louisiana train, after Louisiana had passed a Separate Car Act in 1892, making what Plessy had done illegal. This case had traveled all the way to the Supreme Court in 1896, where Plessy's Lawyers stated that the Separate car Act violated the 13th and 14th Amendments of the Constitution. When the court ruled that this Act was not illegal, as long as everything was "separate but equal", many African Americans were outraged as it dawned on them that everything that they had worked for was being stepped on. This "separate but equal" doctrine had bulldozed over every equal right measure that had been taken, and it replaced integration with segregation. In my opinion, the Plessy v. Ferguson Court Case completely hurts all the integration and equal rights that had been fought over during the past three decades. It obliterates both, making some African Americans feel hopeless, but lights a fire under some of the others.
"The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow." PBS. PBS, 2002. Web. 04 June 2014.