In 1937 Democratic Congressman Arthur Wergs Mitchell sued three railroad companies after being forced to leave his seat in a first-class car on a train in Arkansas for a seat in a segregated second-class car. The Supreme Court ruled on the case in 1941, stating that Black passengers had the right to equal accommodations and treatment during interstate travel, although the ruling did not address segregation itself, which was not banned in interstate railroad transportation until 1955.
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