Salem on History | Plessy v. Ferguson

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Series: Great Events from History: North American Series
Categories: Government and Politics, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Law, Legal History, Courts
Subcategories: African Americans, Blacks, Race, Ethnicity, Racism, Civil Rights, Minority Rights, Minorities, Court Cases, Rulings, Appeals, Segregation, Desegregation, Apartheid, Supreme Court, U.S., Discrimination, Prejudice
Curriculum: African American History, American History 1878-1900
Geographical Location: Washington, D.C.
Date: May 18, 1896

Article abstract: American apartheid is upheld as constitutional if public facilities are “separate but equal.”

Summary of Event

On July 10, 1890, the Louisiana General Assembly, over the objection of its eighteen African American members, enacted a law which read, in part:

. . . all railway companies carrying passengers in their coaches in this state shall provide equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races, by providing two or more passenger coaches for each passenger train, or by dividing the passenger coaches by a...

Salem on History | Plessy v. Ferguson

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Summary of Event

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