Newspaper editor L.A. Martinet arranged for the action that led to this court case, raising money for New York lawyer Albion Tourgee to represent the person selected to test the law.
Newspaper editor L.A. Martinet arranged for the action that led to this court case, raising money for New York lawyer Albion Tourgee to represent the person selected to test the law. A first test involving the arrest of Daniel Desdunes was arranged, but after Desdunes was acquitted due to application of the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution, a purely in-state test was arranged. A woman was planted to make the complaint against the subject, as his status was not visibly clear due to his self-described 7/8 Caucasian heritage. Purchasing a ticket to Covington from New Orleans and sitting in a white car led to, FTP, the arrest of the plaintiff in what Supreme Court case of 1892 which upheld the concept of separate but equal facilities for African- Americans?
Newspaper editor L.A. Martinet arranged for the action that led to this court case, raising money for New York lawyer Albion Tourgee to represent the person selected to test the law.
{Plessy} v. Ferguson