(Source: Politico, April 28, 2016)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On this day in 1941, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that, under the 1887 Interstate Commerce Act, African-Americans were entitled to equal accommodations on the nation’s railroads. Rep. Arthur Mitchell of Illinois, the first black member of Congress to be elected as a Democrat, co-argued his own suit before the court.
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