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Louisiana passes the Separate Car Act that makes railroad companies provide separate (but equal) cars for black and white passengers in 1890. A group of black citizens joined with the East Louisiana Rail Road Company to fight the Act. (The citizens wanted rights and the RR company wanted to save money by using fewer cars.) Homer Plessy was chosen to break the law so it could be challenged in court.
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___ Plessy appealed the decision and lost again, but took the case to the Supreme Court in 1896.
___ Homer Plessy bought a first class train ticket and sat down in the ‘whites only’ section of the train.
___ The Supreme Court upheld the previous decisions and said that racial segregation was constitutional if accommodations were equal. This led to more and more legal segregation all over the US.
___ Plessy was arrested for riding in a ‘whites only’ railroad car, because he was 1/8th black.
___ Plessy argued that the Act violated his 13th & 14th Amendment rights, but he lost in the local court.