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Plessy AND Ferguson
Posted by: Kaine
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Brown v. Board of Education, Homer Adolph Plessy, Jim Crow Laws, Keith Plessy, Phoebe Ferguson, Plessy and Ferguson Foundation, Plessy V Ferguson, seperate but equal, U.S. Supreme Court
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June 8, 2011 |
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June 8, 2011
The date was June 7, 1892, and Homer Adolph Plessy decided to buy a railroad ticket that would change civil rights and the lives of both African-Americans and Caucasian people. The ticket was for a train passage from New Orleans to Covington, Louisiana. While aboard this train Plessy sat in the “Whites Only” section of the railcar and refused to relocate. Upon his arrest, his court date was set and history was beginning to be made. John Howard Ferguson was the prosecutor appointed to handle this case. Ferguson argued that Plessy was granted equality but not the liberty of doing as he pleased....
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