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Human rights in the United States

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Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) Facts of the Case? The state of Louisiana enacted a law that required separate railway cars for blacks and whites. In 1892, Homer Adolph Plessy--who was seven-eighths Caucasian--took a seat in a "whites only" car of a Louisiana train. He refused to move to the car reserved for blacks and was arrested. Question? Is Louisiana's law mandating racial segregation on its trains an unconstitutional infringement on both the privileges and immunities and the equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment? Conclusion? Decision:?7 votes for Ferguson, 1 vote(s) against Legal provision:?US Const. Amend 14, Section 1
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