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An African American named Homer Plessy predated Rosa Parks' famous refusal to comply with racist transportation laws by more than 60 years. The Supreme Court upheld his conviction for sitting in a whites-only train car in Plessy v. Ferguson, leading to the Jim Crow era. Discover hard history and how "separate but equal" was far from equal.

00:00 Who Was Homer Plessy?
03:20 The Compromise of 1877 Reasserts White Supremacy
05:17 Plessy Violates the Separate Car Act
09:47 Plessy v Ferguson Supreme Court Decision
13:54 Plessy Case Ushers in Jim Crow Era
15:45 Different Forms of Slavery
19:57 The Purpose of Segregation
23:37 How African Americans Were Denied Voting Rights
27:38 Impact of Wilmington Massacre on Black Community
34:07 African American Activism

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