John Howard Ferguson | American jurist | Britannica (original) (raw)

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history of Jim Crow laws

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  In Jim Crow law: Challenging the Separate Car Act
  …new judge in Desdunes’s case, John Ferguson, dismissed the case.
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  In Jim Crow law: Homer Plessy and Jim Crow
  …in criminal court before Judge John Howard Ferguson to answer charges of violating the Separate Car Act.
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Plessy v. Ferguson

• In Homer Plessy: Plessy’s arrest
  …in criminal court before Judge John Howard Ferguson to answer charges of violating the Separate Car Act.
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