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超过50年的时间，黑人与白人在等火车时有各自的候车室，例如图中这个维吉尼亚州的罗阿诺课车站即是如此
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「普莱西对弗格森」 (Plessy
v. Ferguson) 案
1896年5月18日
到了1930年代，种族隔离的政策还是相当普遍。举例来说，1937年阿肯色州发生水灾时，白人灾民与黑人灾民救被放置在不同的援救场所里。最后，在聆听「全国有色人种协进会」 (National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People，NAACP) 一位名叫索古得．马歇尔 (Thurgood
Marshall) 的律师答辩之后，最高法院在1954年5月17日推翻了「普莱西控告弗格森」一案的判决。后来在「布朗控告教育部」 (Brown
v. the Board of Education) 一案中，法院无异议的通过哈蓝法官在50年前的主张，判决这项隔离政策是违宪的。你对于这种隔离不同种族的法律，以及后来废止这些不公平法律的判决有多瞭解呢？
By the 1930s, the practice of racial segregation was still widespread. When devastating floods hit Arkansas in 1937, for example, white refugees and black refugees were cared for in separate relief facilities. Finally, after hearing arguments by NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall, the Supreme Court reversed the Plessy decision on May 17, 1954. In Brown v. the Board of Education, a unanimous Court agreed with what Justice Harlan had said 50 years ago, that segregation was unconstitutional. What do you know about laws that kept people separated and about later laws that disallowed this practice?
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