PLESSY V FERGUSON

a court case in 1896 which was decided by the US Supreme Court . It stated that segregation on trains was legal if black and white people received equal services. Southern states soon also used this idea of ‘ separate but equal ’ in schools, public buildings, etc. The ruling (= decision) was replaced in 1954 by the Supreme Court’s decision in the case of Brown v Board of Education of Topeka , which stated that segregation in schools was illegal.