Segregation, or racial segregation by definition, is the systematic seperation of people.
In 1865, the Civil War came to an end and officially abolished slavery in America. However, it did not grant any human rights to freed slaves. Fast forward 27 years later, in 1892, Homer Plessy, a mixed man living in New Orleans, was arrested when he tried to sit in an all-white train car. Plessy and his lawyers...