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In the case of plessy v. Ferguson, what did homer plessy refuse to do

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This 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case upheld the constitutionality of segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. It stemmed from an 1892 incident in which African-American train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a Jim Crow car, breaking a Louisiana law.
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Homer Plessy refused to sit in a Jim Crow car, breaking a Louisiana law.
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