The struggle for civil rights became difficult with the separate but equal decision when it was used by the supreme court which tells it does not affect the civil rights of the African Americans stated in the 13th and 14th amendment. At the Louisiana Railroad Plessy argued that it was his right under the Separation Car Act to sit in at the white's car when he was asked to sit on a black car. The state classified him as black because of his part d<span>escendancy from a black race. </span>
Segregation had been considered constitutional under the lemma "separate but equal" during the Flessy vs. Ferguson case in 1896. The decision enacted by the US Supreme Court stated that the provision of rights guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution was secured for every US kid, as long as the educational facilities were equal in terms of quality, no matter whether white and black children were separated or not.
Fortunately, the decision subsequently reached in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 overturned the previous convictions and decisions of the Supreme Court, arguing how separating children solely in terms of race would trigger feelings of inferiority and discrimination in US black kids ans this would, in turn, affect their school performance and hence, it declared segregation to be unconstitutional and urged schools to remove such system.
The signers of the Declaration of Independence were not afraid of what would come because they knew that their grievances were legitimate. They presented valid facts of why they should separate and declare their own independence. They noted that they would be ready for a longer struggle if they did not yield
