It was almost 100 years after plessy v. Ferguson that the government stepped in and made it so businesses couldnt keep discriminating, if the government didn't step in then we'd still have de facto segregation
@@CHill-qn3kr "... Was starting to sort out...". My point was that Homer Plessy was recruited by the railroad to put himself in that position so that he could challenge the law. The railroads, being greedy capitalists (of course), didn't want the law, presumably because it cost them money... ie the free market, due to their profit motive, were aga st the discriminatory law. Free markets don't "initiate policy" they just work.
@@kennethalbert4653 only the railroads because they had business in north and south, but the majority of southern business like restaurants, hotels, gas stations would continue to segregate until the civil rights acts were passed
