Introduction
Kelly (n.d.) wrote that this U.S. Supreme Court case in 1896 followed on from earlier cases in the Louisiana courts in 1892, which were the consequences of Homer Plessy (a light-skinned African American) seating himself in a Louisiana train railroad car designated as “whites only”, then refusing to leave, for which he was arrested. That landmark Supreme Court case verdict had a huge impact on African Americans, as described in the following paragraphs.
The Case and its Impacts
The Majlessi Law Firm’s article (n.d.) entitled “Historic Trial – Plessy V. Ferguson” states that Plessy’s attempt to travel on an East Louisiana train in a “whites-only” car – for ...
