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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. | 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. | ||
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[https://www.britannica.com/video/Did-You-Know-Civil-Rights-Movement-1954/-203240 by Britannica] | |||
NARRATOR: In 1896 the United States Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation was legal. This meant that African Americans could be segregated, or separated, from whites in public places, such as schools. The Supreme Court reversed that decision in 1954. It ruled that separate schools for blacks and whites were unequal and, therefore, against the law. | |||
