Molly Moor Plessy v. Ferguson 1896

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Molly MoorPlessy v. Ferguson
1896

• Homer Plessy (a Creole) was arrested for
  deliberately sitting in a white onlyrailroad
  car.
• The Supreme Court set the precedentthat
  separate facilities for blacks and whites were
  constitutional as long as they were equal.

Brown v. Board of Education 1954

• Eight year old Linda Brown was refused enrollment
  in an all white school that was just a few
  blocks from her home. Consequently, she was
  forced to walk twenty blocks to attend an all
  black school.
• NAACP filed a law suit on behalf of the Brown
  family against the Board of Education in Topeka,
  KS.
• The case went to the Supreme Court which ruled
  that separate but equal has no place in the
  field of public education.
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