may 18, 1896 - Plessy v Ferguson
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This case had a seven-to-one majority and created a large controversy on "separate but equal". This court case upheld racial segregation, blooming from an incident where Homer Plessy, a train passenger, refused to sit in a car for blacks. The Supreme Court said (in turn to his feeling of constitutional rights being violated) that the state law "implies merely a legal distinction" between whites and blacks, and disregards the 13th and 14th Amendments. Restricted Jim Crow and separate accommodations based on race were encouraged after the court ruling.
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