In this article, the author discusses racial and school segregation with the Plessy vs. Ferguson case, as well as the Brown vs. Board of Education case as an example. The Plessy case deals with Louisiana's separate car law, wherein a 30-year-old apprentice shoemaker named Homer Plessy, who was 1/8 Negro, was arrested for sitting in the Whites-only passenger car. Plessy's actions unleashed a chain reaction of social, political, and legal struggles that resonate yet today. The Supreme Court ruling in Plessy vs. Ferguson enabled the expansion of separate but equal into many aspects of daily life in states throughout the South, where segregation was already an institution. In the Brown case, which deals with school segregation, Brown fought school board sanctions that compelled his eight-year-old daughter, Linda to negotiate busy railroad yards to catch the bus for a Black school 21 blocks away. He wanted Linda to have the right to attend the White school only five blocks from their home. Brown and his attorney, Thurgood Marshall argued successfully that state-sanctioned segregation of public schools was unconstitutional. The author emphasizes that the Brown decision marked the start of three decades of intensive efforts to integrate public schools.