Bob-Lo Excursion Co. v. People of the State of Michigan involved a Canadian Excursion Co. called Bob-Lo was was trying to prevent a High-Schooler in Ontario named Sarah Elizabeth Ray from a school outing to an island amusement park. When Sarah was trying to board the steamboat owned by Bob-Lo to get to the island, the operators were not letting her onto the steamboat. The reason was because one of the Bob-Lo Co. rules was ” All Negroes or disorderly persons are forbidden from entry to the island”.  The Michigan State Supreme Court found Bob-Lo Excursion Co. in violation of the Michigan’s Civil Rights Act, fining the company $25. Later, Bob-Lo Co. tried to do an appeal to the  U.S. Supreme Court, and was reviewed by the U.S. Congress. The Bob-Lo attorney’s then used the precedent of Morgan v. Virginia (1946), when the Court had overthrown a Virginia segregation law when, the law ran counter to the rights of the U. S. Congress to control interstate travel. The U.S. still upheld the Michigan Civil Rights Law. This was decided because, this was more of a matter of  local commerce and not foreign commerce, so the Supreme Court affirmed with the local court on their ruling and agreed. Because only way to get to the Island was from Detroit Michigan, where most of the customers lived, they left it up to the courts there. The Supreme Court was then willing to protect the civil rights of the blacks. When the Supreme Court made that decision, it paved the way for the Brown v. Board of Education (1954). This effected the Jim Crow laws by, making the Supreme Court willing to protect blacks civil rights, thus making it somewhat impossible to deny blacks their rights to use transportation vehicles to get to certain areas unless there are other ways of getting to the area. So this case greatly effected the Jim Crow laws.