Try to put yourself into Homer Plessy's shoes. If you had been alive 1896, do you think would have been brave enough to challenge segregation like he did? Why or why not?

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is

Americans who supported manifest destiny believed that the united states should

Who wrote the declaration of independence