Plessy v. Ferguson was a court case that changed history. When Homer Plessy was forced to move his seat on a train, he filed a lawsuit stating that this was against his 14th amendment rights. This case brought up two big issues, separate but equal and what the reconstruction amendments allowed and didn’t allow. After losing the case, the phrase Separate but Equal came into play. Many white people said that being separate but equal was not against the fourteenth amendment. Separate but Equal said that even if places were segregated, as long as they are equal everything is fine. Well this struck many black people because it was obvious that nothing in the South was equal. Their schools had limited supplies and their drinking fountains were full
