South America : Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, Uruguay, Peru, Paraguay, Venezuela.
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1.Homer Plessy bought a first class train ticket and sat down in the ‘whites only’ section of the train.
2.Plessy was arrested for riding in a ‘whites only’ railroad car, because he was 1/8th black.
3.Plessy argued that the Act violated his 13th & 14th Amendment rights, but he lost in the local court.
4.Plessy appealed the decision and lost again, but took the case to the Supreme Court in 1896.
5.The Supreme Court upheld the previous decisions and said that racial segregation was constitutional if accommodations were equal. This led to more and more legal segregation all over the US.
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The black codes enacted immediately after the American Civil War, though varying from state to state, were all intended to secure a steady supply of cheap labor, and all continued to assume the inferiority of the freed slaves.
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