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Plessy, a black man, attempted to sit in an all-white railroad car. After refusing to get up and move, he was arrested. Plessy filed a petition against Ferguson, stating that segregation stigmatized the blacks.
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Founded in 1942, the CORE was a civil rights activist organization embraced a pacifist, non-violent approach to fighting racial segregation.
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