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What was the subject of the Louisiana laws upheld by Plessy v. Ferguson?

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"The statute of Louisiana, acts of 1890, c. 111, requiring railway companies carrying passengers in their coaches in that State, to provide equal, but separate, accommodations for the white and colored races, by providing two or more passenger coaches for each passenger train, or by dividing the passenger coaches by a partition so as to secure separate accommodations..." ~ "separate but equal" ~ > https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/163/537

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