What Has Helped Change The United States Segregation Laws

Throughout time, there has not been equality between the races. Court cases, here in the United States, have tried to create racial equality, but did they really work? How did the cases really change racial equality?

In To Kill A Mockingbird this same sort of question was come upon. Why was “Separate but Equal” here and why was it legal?

Plessy vs. Ferguson is probably one of the most famous court cases

that deals with the de-segregation of the United States.

On June 7, 1892, a man named Homer Plessy was jailed for riding in a “white-only” railway car. Plessy was only 1/8 black though. He was 7/8’s Caucasian, yet still considered black. Therefore, by Louisiana state law, he could not ride in the “white only” car. (Back then if you were more than 1/8 black, you were considered black.) He wanted to get from New Orleans to Covington, but was jailed just because he wouldn’t sit in a “black only” car (Equality for).

When the case made it to trial, the judge was a Massachusetts lawyer by the name of John Howard Ferguson. He himself had earlier said that a

train car law was unconstitutional if the train traveled throug

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