1890
Legislation / segregationSupplement
Louisiana Separate Car Act
Louisiana; Black railway passengers
State law required segregated railway accommodations and penalized passengers who violated the racial allocation. A planned challenge by Homer Plessy led to the 1896 Supreme Court decision.
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Context / qualification
The underlying state law predates the Supreme Court ruling by six years.