Friday, May 18, 2012

TIH: Plessy v. Ferguson

May 18, 1896:  the U.S. Supreme Court announces its decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, effectively condemning  black Americans to second class citizenship and acting like the Fourteenth Amendment could be ignored.  It wasn't until nearly 70 years later in Brown v. Bd. of Education that this decision was overruled.

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