Why Was Racial Discrimination Important In The Civil Rights Movement?

Nearly 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, African American still faced segregation, racial violence, and were denied the right to vote. Racial discrimination occurred all over the nation and in many different ways. Black and whites had separate facilities and often rode on separate transportation. African Americans protested against the unfairness. Often these objections were sent to court. There were 15 cases sent to the Supreme Court on racial discrimination. Two of these would make history. Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education proved important in the Civil Rights Movement. Though both were different with differing outcomes, these two cases both had many similarities. Louisiana adopted law in 1890 that required