Plessy vs. Ferguson was the legal case for the fairness of segregation to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1896. Some states passed Jim Crow Laws that stopped blacks from using the same facilities and other things than whites. Some blacks even lost their rights as a human being. I personally think people only tried doing something about segregation only because the blacks never stopped complaining. I think they maybe didnt even care about all of this, because really, nothing really even changed. They ruled that it was legal to segregate blacks from whites and that it didn't violate the 14th Amendment. Many people remember Plessy vs. Ferguson as "Seperate but equal". Even though they were most definately not seprate but equal, my guess is they just wanted it to seem like the government was trying to do something about it. Black and whites could still be segregated but had to have equal services. In most times they didnt have equal services. This resulted in legal segregation for close to 60 years. Some southern state governments never allowed blacks equal facilities or quality resources after the debate.
http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/acs/1890s/plessy/plessy.html
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