may 18, 1896 - Plessy V. Ferguson
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Homer Adolph Plessy was a successful Louisiana businessman living in Baton Rouge. Comfortable in the society of both racial groups, Plessy had had an African American grandparent. He did not consider himself African American, Louisiana law defined him as "ocataroon" one eighth African American.
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