Plessy v. Ferguson · ¶31

While there may be in Louisiana persons of different races who are not citizens of the United States, the words in the act, “ white and colored races,” necessarily include all citizens of the United States of both races residing in that State. So that we have before us a state enactment that compels, under penalties, the separation of the two races in railroad passenger coaches, and makes it a crime for a citizen of either race to enter a coach that has been assigned to citizens of the other race.

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U. S. Reports, volume 163, at 537 (Library of Congress) · transcription: Caselaw Access Project
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