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Louisian Homer Plessy is detained in the United States for traveling on the white car

132
years ago

07 June 1892,

Louisian Homer Plessy was arrested in the United States for traveling on the white wagon. In the trial, the court authorized segregation between whites and blacks if the travel conditions were the same. This ruling led to the legalization of segregation throughout the country.

Source:

Howard Zinn, A People's history of the United States

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