... first places that this was apparent on was the railways. This leads to the Railway Separation Act in Louisiana in 1890, and to a Supreme Court decision in 1896 known as Russell, 2 Plessy vs. Ferguson in 1896. The Supreme Court's decision in this case establishes a "separate but equal" policy, thus allowing states to legalize segregation. (Wormser, 99) It was this Supreme Court ... there is a problem with paternalism, and that is that it still treats blacks as inferiors. The whites that did partake in paternalism felt that black people should be helped but Russell, 3 only to a certain de...

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