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Plessy v. Ferguson

By Mary Ann Wegmann, The Law Library of Louisiana, University of New Orleans History Department & Nik Richard
On June 7, 1892, a 30-year-old African-American man named Homer Plessy attempted to board a segregated East Louisiana Railroad passenger train car at Press and Royal Streets in New Orleans. Louisiana's Separate Car Act, passed in 1890, required…
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