US Event: Plessy v. Ferguson

This court case decided that "seperate but equal" facilities on intrastate railroads were constitutional. Because of this decision, other facilities around the country now had legal foundation to support their segregation of blacks and whites. "Seperate but equal" was the standard in America until 58 years later, with the Brown v. Board of Education case. I felt that this was almost the opposite of the so-called "white man's burden" that was the justification for imperialism in Europe at the time. America was showing white dominance over blacks, but they were citizens of their own country. The US blatantly said that blacks did not deserve the same things that whites deserved, and pushed to have this justified.