2h 5min, may 18, 1896 y - Plessy V. Ferguson
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It was a major court case that was even taken to the supreme court after Plessy refused to sit in the Jim Crow Car on a train which was illegal for an African American to do in Louisiana. In the end Plessy lost the case and soon after Jim Crow laws were spreading all across the U.S.
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