Plessy V. Ferguson (1896)

On June 7, 1892, a man named Homer Plessy who was 7/8 white, 1/8 black paid for a first class passage on the East Louisiana Railway. He took a vacant seat in a coach train car where white passengers sat.  After refusing to move to the train car for African-Americans he was arrested and brought to court. Justice John H. Ferguson found Plessy guilty so Plessy took his case to the supreme court which became Plessy V. Ferguson.  He argued that the state of Louisiana was violating the 14th amendment which prohibits state and local governments from depriving persons of life, liberty, or property.
    On a 7 to 1 vote the supreme court ruled that the state of Louisiana had, in no way, violated the fourteenth amendment, and that the separate but equal law actually separated the two races as a matter of public policy.
  I completely disagree with the court's ruling on this case, nobody should be discriminated for their race or color.  I think this was an obvious violation of the 14th amendment.

 This landmark case strengthened segregation in the United States in the late 19th century, and kept "seperate but equal" laws in affect until Brown V. Board of Education in 1954.