1950 3 Supreme Court cases eroded by Plessy vs. Ferguson

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  • 1950 3 Supreme Court cases eroded by Plessy vs. Ferguson
    • Segregation on railroad dining cars in now illegal
    • McLaurin vs. Oklahoma State Regents
      • Black students could not be physically separated from white students in the University of Oklahoma
    • Sweatt vs. Painter
      • Separate black Texan law school is not equal to the all White University of Texas law school to which the petitioner had therefore been admitted
    • Truman's Successes
      • By 1952, 5 states retained poll tax
      • 11 states and 20 cities had employment laws
      • 19 states had legislation against discrimination BUT Southern states were still pro to segregation

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