Plessy v Ferguson
In 1896 Homer Plessy, a man one-eighth black, sat in a whites only train car. He lost his Supreme Court case which established the "separate but equal" doctrine. |
"Within minutes of my boarding the conductor ordered me to move to the Jim Crow car, I refused insisting that since they could not tell whether I was negro or white, it didn't make any sense. They arrested me on the spot." |