THE 1970S 1969 1979
SUPREME COURT CASE ROE V WADE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Sit in the white section of a bus
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Sit in a whites only train car
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Reverse Marbury v. Madison
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Reverse Brown v. Board of Education
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Detailed explanation-1: -Plessy purchased a first-class ticket for passage from Covington, LA, to New Orleans on June 7, 1892, boarded the train, and took a seat in a whites only car. When asked to move to a train car designated for “Colored” people, Plessy refused and was arrested. Unsurprisingly, Plessy lost at the state level.
Detailed explanation-2: -He staged an act of civil disobedience to challenge one of Louisiana’s racial segregation laws and bring a test case to force the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on the constitutionality of segregation laws. The Court decided against Plessy.
Detailed explanation-3: -This month, with Overlooked, we’re adding their stories to our archives. When Homer Plessy boarded the East Louisiana Railway’s No. 8 train in New Orleans on June 7, 1892, he knew his journey to Covington, La., would be brief.
Detailed explanation-4: -Like many of the gens de couleur (the class consisting of free Creole people of colour in Louisiana), Plessy could easily have passed for white, and he described himself as “seven-eighths Caucasian and one-eighth African blood, ” which nonetheless made him “colored” under the terms of the Separate Car Act of 1890.