Today in class we talked about the case of Plessy v. Fergesson. I was actually part of the trial being on the side to support Fergesson's side of the case. Which required a lot of preparation for the trial. Through the preparation my group went through I was able to learn a lot about the case because going into the trial when we were assigned to our groups I did not know very much about the case at all. One of the most interesting things that I learned about the case that was unknown to me before studying the case was that Plessy was 1/8th black which still qualified him as black back in the time period even though he did not look black on the outside he was still considered black. I found this very interesting because as people back then went around society and usually got social status based on their skin color he was not considered white even though his skin was light colored. This case played a big impact on history in the U.S. because it allowed people to freely use the concept separate but equal which basically allowed whites to openly segregate themselves from blacks by forcing them to have worse schools, churches, restaurants, and neighborhoods. Segregation became a very important issue in the U.S. as years continued and this court case basically gave the public the Supreme Court's approval to segregate themselves.
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