Plessy v. Ferguson Precedents:

1. Civil Rights Cases (1883): The act of an individual owner who refuses accommodations for colored people, cannot justly be regarded as imposing a badge of slavery or servitude upon colored people.
2. Strauder v. West Virginia (1879): A west Virginia law limiting juries to white males was a discrimination which implied a legal inferiority in civil society.
3. Hall v. De Cuir (1877): The Louisiana statute requiring interstate transportation companies to give all passengers traveling within a state equal rights and privileges without distinction on account of race or color, was held to be unconstitutional in regard to interstate commerce.
4. Louisville, N. O. & T. Ry. Co. v. State of Mississippi, (1890): A railway company was indicted for violating a state law that required all railroads to provide equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races.
5. Gibson v. State (1896): The constitution of the United States forbids so far as civil and political rights are concerned, discrimination by the general government or the states against any citizen because of his race.