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, a mixed-race Creole man who was arrested in 1892 after he boarded a white section of a train as part of an organized effort to challenge a state law requiring railway companies to segregate train passengers.Plessy V. Ferguson
that the Louisiana law was constitutional because the law stipulated equal quality for the train cars., aided with help of the New Orleans district attorney’s office that once prosecuted Plessy and even the relatives of the judge who convicted him, John H. Ferguson.,” Plessy’s relative Keith Plessy told, adding the campaigners want to “[honor] him in the right way by recognizing that the law itself was a crime.
Plessy’s record is now in the hands of the state’s Democratic governor, Bel Edwards, who must sign off on any pardons.In 2009, descendants of both Plessy and Ferguson — Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson — teamed up to found theAfter being convicted by a New Orleans court of breaking the separate car law, Plessy sued Ferguson and argued the judge violated 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. The “paved the way for legal segregation to continue in the U.S. for more than five decades.
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