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☆☆☆☆☆He was riding in a "whites-only" train car. Front of the marker placed Feb. 12, 2009, commemorating the planned arrest of Homer Plessy June 17, 1892, for violating the Louisiana 1890 Separate Car Act. He was sitting in the whites' coach when he was asked to move and refused, which led to his arrest.
Healthier citizens
Making city governments better
reforming city governments
Although segregation was illegal, it was still practiced. Northern cities went by custom not by laws.
If you had a black ancestors, you were considered black, regardless of your actual color.
No. In fact, the Plessy v. Ferguson decision did the opposite and increased segregation in the south.
The government was willing to use force to end strikes
The leader Booker T. Washington turned the Tuskegee institute into a model school.
They agreed that segregation was wrong.
Du Bois believed that African Americans should not accept segregation.
The issue that wouldn't concern most progressives would be racial segregation in the South.
President Theodore Roosevelt was against the misuse of power by the big corporations doing business as a trust or monopoly.
