White people believed that the Jim Crow laws made races ‘separate but equal’. However, this was disputed by most black people. They agreed that the laws kept the races apart but that ...

Chief Justice Earl Warren delivers the Supreme Court's landmark decision abolishing "separate but equal ... public schools are not "equal" and cannot be made "equal," and that hence they are ...

Homer Plessy, who boarded a “whites-only” train car in 1892 as a civil rights demonstration and whose case led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s “separate but equal” ruling ... of several actions in recent ...

But starting in the 1890s, shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized “separate but equal” in Plessy ... those words were covered up by different ceremonial plaques.