Plessy v. Ferguson

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1896-05-18

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Me. Justice Bkown, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court. This case turns upon the constitutionality of an act of the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana, passed in 1890. providing for separate railway carriages for the white and colored races. Acts 1890, No. Ill, p. 152. The first section of the statute enacts “ that all railway companies carrying passengers in tâ€Ĥ

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