''The 'Jim Crow' Car."
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This article discusses the decision of the United States Supreme Court in the case of Plessy versus Ferguson, which upheld a Louisiana law that required separate railroad cars for white and African American passengers; the court considered this measure to be similar to "laws of congress and of many of the states requiring the establishment of separate schools for children of the two races and other similar laws." Only Justice Marshall Harlan dissented: "In his view of the case no power in the land had the right to regulate the enjoyment of civil rights upon the basis of race. It would be just as reasonable and proper, he said, for states to pass laws requiring separate cars to be furnished for Catholics and Protestants, or for descendants of those of the Teutonic race and those of the Latin race."
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1896 May 19 1896 05 19
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