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American History Tellers
The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights Movement
The Citizens Committee folded in late 1896 not long after the Supreme Court's decision and Lewis Martin withdrew himself from the public arena. Plessy versus Ferguson gave the doctrine of separate but equal legal protection that stood for the next 60 years. The same year Homer Plessy pled guilty and paid his fine and criminal court the state of Louisiana held a new constitutional convention in New Orleans. Meeting for over 66 days the convention passed a series of new constitutional by-laws stripping voting rights from black citizens of the state. Segregation also expanded to Louisiana streetcars and public water fountains White majority rule became entrenched as the law of the land while lynchings and violence against black people spiked in the
