Arnold Bertonneau and his two children lived in New Orleans about three blocks away from a school. After applying to attend, the children were denied because the Chief Superintendent would not admit Black children. To support the Superintendent, the city’s School Board of Directors created a Preamble that stated that it would be best to educate the “the different races in separate schools.” Bertonneau said this violated the children’s Fourteenth Amendment rights and the state law of Louisiana, which stated, “All the children of this state between the ages of six and twenty-one shall be admitted to the public schools or other institutions of learning sustained or established by the state in common, without distinction of race, color or previous condition. There shall be no separate schools or institutions of learning established exclusively for any race by the state of Louisiana.” The state law clearly supported Bertonneau and went against the Board’s Preamble. The judge, however, ruled that Black children were “compelled” to attend different schools and argued that it was better to educate Black and white children separately. Sadly, Bertonneau lost this case, which became precedent for Plessy v. Ferguson. [191 words]