Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Henderson v. United States, 339 U.S. 816, was a landmark United States Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States that abolished segregation in railroad dining cars. On May 17, 1942, Elmer W. Henderson, a Negro passenger, was travelling first-class on the Southern Railway from Washington to Atlanta en route to Birmingham in the course of his duties as an employee of the United States.