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Accordingly, in 1890, Louisiana passed the Separate Car Act, which required "separate railway carriages for the [W]hite and colored races." The act required that all passenger railways provide separate cars for Blacks and Whites, stipulated that the cars be "equal" in facilities, banned Whites from sitting in Black cars and Blacks in White cars (with exception to "nurses attending children of the other race"), and penalized passengers or railway employees for violating its terms.
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