Throughout the 1800s and early to mid-1900s racism had built a wall in-between the American people. The thirteenth amendment was allowing freedmen into society. According to the Civil Rights Act of 1875 racial discrimination was outlawed in places of public accommodations, hotels, and theaters; however, this act was not properly enforced and hardly obeyed. In 1892, a man by the name of Homer Plessy decided to take a seat on the “whites only” Louisiana train. Although Plessy was seven eighths Caucasian, he was still asked to move to the car reserved for blacks only, due to Jim Crow laws. Plessy denied this request and was quickly arrested. The question of the case was simple, “Is Louisiana’s law mandating racial segregation on its trains an
