Historian C. Vann Woodward wrote in a 1964 article about Plessy v. Ferguson, that white and black southerners mixed relatively freely until the 1880s, when southern state legislatures passed the first laws requiring railroads to provide separate cars for “Negro” or “Colored” passengers. Florida became the first state to mandate segregated railroad cars in 1887 […]
"History never repeats itself. Man always does." Voltaire
