Plessy V. Ferguson, Brown V. Board of Education

Plessy v. Ferguson
Briefly describe the case.  
This case began with Mr. Homer Plessy a man, who was of racially mixed decent seven-eighths white and one-eighth black, he purchased a ticket to board a train from New Orleans to Covington, Louisiana. Mr. Plessy got arrested on June 7, 1892, for sitting in the white car, even doe he had a light complexion he was consider black and was not allow to sit on the white car therefore he was still legally required to sit on the colored car. The statute of Louisiana required the railroad companies to make available separate but equal accommodations for whites and blacks.
His attorney argues that his civil rights under the 13th and 14th Amendments of the Constitution where violated. Judge Ferguson found Plessy guilty and declared the Separate Car Act constitutional and ruled against Mr. Plessy he said that the state had a right to place segregation policies within its own grounds. Mr. Plessy and his attorney took the case to the Supreme Court and upheld Ferguson’s decision; once again the case was ruled against Mr. Plessy in 1896.
The Plessy case was no misfortune. New Orleans activists were very determined to dispute Mr. Crow laws in that city. When the law of Railway Separation Act was passed in 1890, it requiring that black people sit in the backside of railway cars, there were people who thought that this was against the law and morally wrong and they set out to dispute such law. The "separate but equal" doctrine was quickly extended to cover several areas of public life, such as restaurants, restrooms, theaters, and public schools. Until 1954 the United States continue to maintain a legally segregated society, when a unanimous Supreme Court began to dismantle “separate but equal” in Brown v. Board of Education case.

How is the case relevant to us today?
It has taken the courts plenty of years to over turn its own ruling but we have more rights now than before. I think in society today we shouldn’t have this...