It is false that U.S. lawmakers had no problem granting statehood to Wyoming territory because they were very pleased that women in Wyoming had the right to vote and hold office.
After so much debate, on July 10, 1890, President Harris signed the statehood bill to accept Wyoming as the 44th state of the Union. The territory had been established in 1869, and one of the problems the delegates debated during the Constitutional Convention and statehood debates was the issue of population. If there were enough people to be considered a state.
1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. The case stemmed from an 1892 incident in which African-American train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a car for blacks.
