Plessy v. Ferguson

Dred Scott v. Sanford

Tinker v. Des Moines

Roe v. Wade

Brown v. Board of Education

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Plessy saying segregation was illegal.

The Supreme Court never made a ruling.

The Supreme Court ruled that segregation was legal.

Sat in the white only part of the bus.

Took a seat in the white only car of a train.

Sat at a white only section of a lunch counter.

Louisiana

Texas

Georgia

racial tension was was heightened

racial segregation was ended

racial segregation was determined legal

racism was deemed illegal and unconstitutional

racial tension began to ease in the years that followed

Said that all people should own their own car

Forced blacks and whites to sit in same train car

Segregated trains in Louisiana

Homer Plessy filed a complaint against John H. Ferguson, a judge in criminal district court in New Orleans. The case eventually went to the Supreme Court.

Homer Plessy was forced out of a train car for white passengers because he was one-eighth black. He brought his case to Supreme Court after being charged with a crime only to loss the case.

Homer Plessy was a United States citizen living in Louisiana. That made him entitled to every right, privilege and immunity of a citizen of the United States.

Homer Plessy bought a ticket on the East Louisiana Railway. He took a seat on the train in a section reserved for passengers who were white.