Racism is and always will be a problem. In 1896 in the supreme court case, Plessy v. Ferguson, the supreme court decided that separate was equal. About 50 years later, segregation was no longer on the baseball field.  Baseball took a big step forward by integrating, the first African-American to play baseball was Jackie Robinson. Everywhere else, everything was segregated. Black people had worse and unequal situations compared to white people. After about 70 years segregation was finally ended. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech and the Montgomery bus boycott, Little rock nine, and Brown v. Board of Education all played huge parts in the desegregation of America.