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Which of the Following Statements About the Case of Plessy

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Which of the following statements about the case of Plessy v.Ferguson is LEAST accurate?


A) The case resulted from the arrest of Plessy,a man who was seven-eighths white,who refused to leave his seat in the whites-only section of a Louisiana train.
B) The case was instigated by black Louisianans who set up Plessy for arrest to test the state's new law segregating railroad cars.
C) Both a lower court judge,John H.Ferguson,and the Supreme Court of Louisiana,upheld Plessy's arrest.
D) Although the U.S.Supreme Court upheld the legality of "separate but equal" state facilities,it did so by a bare majority,with four justices writing heated dissents.

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