Question

Plessy vs Ferguson Journal Assignment

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1. Why did the railroad company take part in having Homer Plessy challenge providing separate train cars?

2. Why was Homer Plessy selected to be the “test case” for this legal challenge?

Answer 1

1. in order to promote the comfort of passengers railroads had to provide equal the separate accommodations for the white and colored races on lines running in the state

2. the civil rights group chose plessy because he could pass for a white man