Part one of term paper
Segregation has existed in the United States of America (U.S.) from its beginnings. Gorge Washington a crop owner and first President of the U.S. had many slaves to work on his plantation. In later years slavery was abolished from the northern states. Slavery was a main factor in the Civil War. During that war Abraham Lincoln's Emancipatio ...

Part two of term paper
... The U.S. Supreme Court supported this in the trial of Plessy versus Ferguson. The case of Plessy versus Ferguson was a decision in the series of Supreme Court cases dealing with Jim Crow laws, the laws dealing with racial segregation, and whether or not the idea of separate but equal was constitutional. Justice Brown, in his decision explained to the court that Plessies arguments about the Louisiana law forcing blacks and whites to ride in separate cars on trains was unconstitutional was wron ...