http://www.oyez.org/cases/1851-1900/1895/ U.S. Supreme Court Cases, presented by The Oyez Project (www.oyez.org) en-us <p>The state of Louisiana enacted a law that required separate railway cars for blacks and whites. In 1892, Homer Adolph Plessy--who was seven-eighths Caucasian--took a seat in a "whites only" car of a Louisiana train. He refused to move to the car reserved for blacks and was arrested.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1851-1900/1895/1895_210/ <p>The Chinese Exclusion Act imposed imprisonment at hard labor and deportation to Chinese persons convicted of unlawful entry to or presence in the United States. Wong Wing was charged under the Act. A commissioner of the Circuit Court (who was not a judge) found that Wong Wing was an unlawful alien and sentenced him to 60 days at hard labor followed by deportation to China. Wong Wing sought a writ of habeas corpus, but it was denied. He appealed to the Supreme Court.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1851-1900/1895/1895_204/