Racial Discrimination racial discrimination separate black and white black kid cant go to white schools and white kid can't go to black school and other stuff like restaurants,bathroom,and ect. Before 1880, most immigrates Came to to West Virginia from Northern European countries: Germany, Switzerland, Ireland, England, Scotland, Belgium, France, Denmark, and Sweden. Separating the Races Jim Crow laws We're passed to Established "Separate-but-equal" Facilities, such as Restrooms, water fountains,railroad cars, waiting rooms, loading, dining areas, school.
Plessy v. Ferguson The United States Supreme Court decision in plessy v. Ferguson made segregation the law of the land
The case involved homer plessy who took a seat in thwhites only section of a railroad car in Louisiana. Plessy, who was only 7/8 white, refused to give up his seat an was constitutionality arrested. Plessy staged the incident to test the constitutionality of 1890 law.
John R. Clifford test separate but equal schools in west virginia In the same year as the plessy v. Ferguson decision Clifford tried to get a mango county student admitted to an all-white school because there was no school for blacks in the rural community. This all end up being the civil rights movement