The state of Louisiana enacted a law that required separate railway cars for blacks and whites. In 1892, Homer Adolph Plessy--who was seven-eighths Caucasian--took a seat in a "whites only" car of a Louisiana train. He refused to move to the car reserved for blacks and was arrested.
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| dbkwik:resource/PRps91BimJFEqjT4cA3RpQ== | 5.88129e-14 |
| dbr:Plessy_v._Ferguson | 5.88129e-14 |
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