Separate But Equal has to do with the separation of blacks and whites. The blacks thought that separating them from the white people was violating the rights of citizens under the constitution. The white people thought that the black people should be separate from them just because their skin was a different color than theirs. There was a court case that deals with the separation of blacks and whites. It was called Brown vs. Board of Education.
             In 1954, there was a landmark decision made. Justices came to an agreement that schools that were separate were not at all equal. The states were required to admit students into public schools with no regard to their race or color. Fifty-eight years later, there was a man that said that public schools and facilities weren't equal. This man was thurgood Marshall. He was with the NAACP when he was arguing. This case was argued in May of 1954. The court gave them one year to shapen up the schools and facilities. At the end of the year, the requirements still weren't met. After that, the court said that the public schools and facilities must be desegregated. There was another case that came to the Supreme Court in 1954. This case was the Plessy vs. Ferguson case. This was an issue whether separate but equal schools for blacks and whites violated the children's constitutional rights. This was a case that went straight to the Supreme Court. Homer Plessy was arrested for riding in the white section of a train in Louisiana. This court case was ruled in favor of "separate But Equal".
             Blacks and whites can have separate facilities and schools but they must be the same or equal. If the courts find out that they are not equal, somebody could take them to court and then they will have to either make the ones that are there equal or they could take them ones down and build better ones.
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