Homer Plessy was arrested for challenging segregation laws by sitting in a Whites-only railroad car, leading to the Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which upheld segregation under the separate but equal doctrine.
In 1892, Homer Plessy, a man of mixed racial heritage, was arrested for sitting in a Whites-only railroad car in an attempt to challenge the Louisiana law requiring segregation. Plessy's case led to the landmark Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which upheld the constitutionality of segregation under the separate but equal doctrine.
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