The court ruled that “separate but equal” accommodations on Louisiana’s railroads were constitutional, leading to legalized “Jim Crow” segregation in education, public parks, and libraries.
1896: Supreme Court upholds “separate but equal” in Plessy v. Ferguson
1896: Anselm J. McLaurin becomes Mississippi’s thirty-fourth governor
Governor Anselm J. McLaurin
McLaurin served from 1896 to 1900.
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