Separate But Equal, PBS
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The case of Plessy v. Ferguson came before the Supreme Court in 1896, when African-American train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a segregated train car on the grounds that segregation was unconstitutional under the 1875 Civil Rights Act. The court ruled that Jim Crow laws were constitutional, establishing the idea of “separate but equal”, which would continue to justify legal segregation in the south until 1954.
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