Plessy v. Ferguson

-At the end of the nineteenth century, the Supreme Court upheld many Jim Crow laws.
-The fourteenth amendment did not give the federal government the power to prevent private organizations from discriminating against individuals.
- Plessy v. Ferguson- greatest setback to African American equality.
- In this case, African American Homer Plessy argued that his right to equal protection of laws was violated by a Louisiana law that required separate seating for white and black citizens on public railroads.
-In the decision, the court held that segregation was legal as long as the separate facilities provided for blacks were equal to those provided to the whites.
- The result of the trial was that nothing became equal, it all stayed the same.