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[https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/52963325 by BBC 9/6/20] | [https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/52963325 by BBC 9/6/20] | ||
The 46-year-old died after being arrested, and pinned to the ground, by police officers in the US city of Minneapolis. | The 46-year-old died after being arrested, and pinned to the ground, by police officers in the US city of Minneapolis. | ||
=====The Jim Crow Era | A Stain on America's Past===== | |||
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUNiuYJxfcY by he Great Courses YouTube] | |||
An African American named Homer Plessy predated Rosa Parks' famous refusal to comply with racist transportation laws by more than 60 years. The Supreme Court upheld his conviction for sitting in a whites-only train car in Plessy v. Ferguson, leading to the Jim Crow era. Discover hard history and how "separate but equal" was far from equal. | |||
