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jan 15, 1896 - Plessy vs. Ferguson

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Plessy would not sit in a Jim crow car and this went to the supreme court because he made a claim that Jim crow laws were going against the 13th and 14th amendment. Plessy lost the case making evident the barrier between races even clearer

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jan 15, 1896
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~ 130 years ago