may 18, 1896 - Plessy v Ferguson
Description:
In 1892, Homer Plessy of Louisiana refused to sit in the "Jim Crow" car, where black people were required to sit. This case traveled all the way to the Supreme Court, arguing whether it broke the thirteenth and fourteenth amendment. In a 7-1 vote (with one judge abstaining), the Court decided that "requiring their separation … do not necessarily imply the inferiority of either race". This precedent of "separate but equal" stood until Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in 1954.Added to timeline:
Date:
may 18, 1896
Now
~ 129 years ago