Civil Rights

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    Plessy v. Ferguson

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Plessy v. Ferguson
    Plessy attempted to sit in an all-white railroad car. After refusing to sit in the black railway carriage car Plessy was arrested for violating an 1890 Louisiana statute that provided for segregated separate but equalopion
  • CORE

    The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) was founded in 1942 as the Committee of Racial Equality by an interracial group of students in Chicago-Bernice Fisher