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aug 27, 1896 - Plessy v. Ferguson

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Validated state legislation that institutionalized the separation of races. Court case was about a Louisiana law that requried separate seating arrangements for the races on railroads. In short. Separate but equal is okay.

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aug 27, 1896
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~ 129 years ago