Question 5 • 1300W.1Y_African Amer Hist Web Recovery* – S2460280
Homer Plessy was arrested in 1892 after deliberately sitting in a railroad car reserved for white passengers, in violation of Louisiana’s Separate Car Act. His arrest led to the legal case Plessy v. Ferguson, which challenged the segregation law. The correct choice is sitting in a “whites only” rail car.
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