S. Supreme Court. This time they had to prove that separating the races was emotionally damaging to the chidden involved. They proved that as a result of segregation, black children felt inferior to white children and white children became morally confused because the government was telling them to treat everyone equally, but still they refused to give black people the same privileges as white people. By the end of 1953, the U.S. Supreme Court voted in favor of ending segregation unanimously.
The U.S. Supreme Court case, Plessy vs. Ferguson separated people according to race under the conditions that things would be equal. This still made many black people feel inferior because they did not have the same opportunists as white people did despite what the law stated. According to the movie which was based on a true story, the South Carolina school board refused to fund a black child's education equal to a white child's education. On average the school board willingly paid $179 per white child's education and only $43 per black child's education. Many white people in the 1950's felt that their children were academically and socially superior to black children so they felt that the distribution of educational funds was fair and made perfect sense. Many white people in the 1950's believed that segregation was a good thing. They did not believe that white people and black people would get along well together. Others liked segregation because they felt that black people were dirty and they did not want to have to come into contact with them. For example, many did not want to drink from the same water fountains or share the same restrooms with black people. In the movie, Separate But Equal, a black chauffeur was forced to sleep in the car because there was no hotel for him to stay in within a twenty mile radius of his bosses hotel.
Many white people felt that they were naturally superior to black people because of the color of their skin.