may 18, 1896 - Plessy v. Ferguson
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Date: May 18, 1896This well known court case stemmed from an 1892 incident in which African-American train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a Jim Crow car, breaking a Louisiana law. Rejecting Plessy’s argument that his constitutional rights were violated, the Court ruled that a state law that “implies merely a legal distinction” between whites and blacks did not conflict with the 13th and 14th Amendments.
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may 18, 1896
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~ 128 years ago
