Should people be separated by race? Why? Should boys and girls go to the same school? Why?

2. Should people be separated by race? Why? • Should boys and girls go to the same school? Why?

3. Court Cases

4. Vocabulary • Separate but Equal – a belief that as long as facilities were equal races could be kept apart • Segregation – separating people by race or religion

5. Key Points • Plessy v. Ferguson was a court case that upheld separate but equal • Brown v. Board was a court case that desegregated schools because they were separate but not equal.

7. Homer Plessy Plessy was 7/8 White and 1/8 Black He was considered black because of the 1/8

8. Plessy v. Ferguson • During this time blacks and whites were separated on trains. • The train cars had to be equal in quality • Plessy was chosen to test the law by riding in the white car and then was arrested • The case went to the Supreme Court • Separate but equal was upheld from 1896 until 1954

9. Brown v. Board • In 1954 Plessy v. Ferguson was overturned by Brown v. Board of Education • It found that schools that were separate were not equal