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Jim Crow was a play character that was in the 1800's and 1900's. He was supposed to represent that blacks were not as good as whites. Jim Crow was a character created by Daddy Rice. He would put charcoal over his face to make him look black, it was called being in "black face".
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He was the President during the civil war, fighting for black's rights. He was assasinated in April 15, 1865 by John Wilkes Booth
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Homer Plessy is born Mrach 17, 1872 in New Orleans, LA. He was considered black being of 1/8 black heritage which means one of his great grandparents were black. He was considered black even though he didn't look like it and only one of his greatgrand parents was black.
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The 14th Amendement guaranted citizenship to all people born in the U.S. It also gave citizens due process and equal protection under the law. But Homer Plessy had no due process and equal protection under the law. This matters because Homer Plessy did not get due process and equal protection under the law.
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Homer Plessy bords the East Louisiana Railroad bus in 1892 and gets aressted from refusing to move to the black section of the bus.
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Homer Plessy goes to federal court and opeals what Judge Ferguson has to say 2 times
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The Plessy v. Ferguson Marker was a marker representing the case.
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This is the Supreme Court that ruled the Plessy v. Ferguson case. The case ended with Homer Plessy going to jail for 4-6 months.
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Plessy goes to jail after objecting thye agreement of the court all the way up to the Supreme Court. Plessy was in jail for 4 months.
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Homer Plessy died when he was 63 years old.
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This is a segragation sign a laudrey factory.
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A picture showing how "seperate but equal" is not equal.
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Mlk has aspeech about black's civil rights. It swas calledthe "I Have A Dream" speech. Martin was the president of the NAACP.
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Segergation ended in the U.S. after The Civil Rights Act of 1964. It ended all state laws permiting segergation.
