"We consider the underlying fallacy of the plaintiff's argument to consist in the assumption that the enforced separation of
the two races stamps the colored race with a badge of inferiority. If this be so, it is not by reason of anything found in the act.
but solely because the colored race chooses to put that construction upon it."
Plessy
Ferguson 1896
Because of this Supreme Court decision,
Segregation continued to occur, however in the case of Brown v. The Board of Education, it was not decided that the races remained separate while equal, but rather, that there would be an end to segregation.
