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Segregation has existed in the United States of America (U.S.) from its beginnings. Gorge Washington a crop owner and first President of the U.S. had many slaves to work on his plantation. In later years slavery was abolished from the northern ....

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... laws, the laws dealing with racial segregation, and whether or not the idea of separate but equal was constitutional. Justice Brown, in his decision explained to the court that Plessies arguments about the Louisiana law forcing blacks and whites to ride in separate cars on trains was unconstitutional was wrong. The court believed that the law was not in conflict with the thirteenth amendment because forcing blacks to ride on separate trains was not slavery, what the thirteenth banned. Slavery was involuntary servitude, and the Louisiana law was forcing no involuntary servitude. The fourteenth amendment says all people naturalized to the ...