Plessy vs. Ferguson
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- What was the Plessy vs. Ferguson court case?
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- Sir you need to sit in the car for blacks
- What was the ruling of the case?
- What case finally ended segregation under state law?
- It started when Homer Plessy who was 1/8 African blood sat in the white car for a train instead of the colored car. He refused to get up and move to the colored car.
- The judge found him guilty. The charge was "Viol. Sec. 2 Act 111, 1890" of the Louisiana sperate car act.
- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas ended segregation under state law. Many states amended or rewrote their constitutions to agree with the 14th amendment.
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