LOVING vs. VIRGINIA
Virginia went through with a law making it illegal for a white and black person to marry. Mildred & Richard Loving went against the state, and ended all race-based restriction on marriage throughout the United States.
PLESSY vs. FERGUSON
Plessy wouldn’t move from an all-white railway carriage car and refused to move to the all black one. They violated the law “separate but equal.” This rule was set specifically in this case; in other words, it said that "separate" facilities were constitutional as long as they were "equal." Even though Plessy was found guilty, they retaliated by pointing out how the law violated the thirteenth and fourteenth amendments.
BROWN vs. BOARD OF EDUCATION
A little girl Linda Brown had to walk a mile, through a railroad switch-yard, to her all-black school when a all-white school was only a couple blocks away. After trying to enroll the little girl into school, the principal of the all-white school refused. Her father, Oliver Brown asked the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for help and they happily obliged. It was fought in court that to black children, making them go to a separate school makes them feel inferior, and not equal to the white kids. The outcome of the court did not stop segregation in restaurants, buses, and public schools, but it did show that segregation was in fact unconstitutional.