Louisiana ex rel. Abbott v. Hicks
law case
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history of Jim Crow laws
- In Jim Crow law: Challenging the Separate Car Act
…handed down its decision in Louisiana ex rel. Abbott v. Hicks. A train conductor on the Texas and Pacific Railway had been prosecuted for seating a Black passenger in a white car, and the railway argued that since the passenger was traveling between two states, either the Louisiana law did…
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