This is the sixth installment of the Untold Series where I look at some of the most important civil rights cases. I quickly unpack their stories and why I believe they are significant. This series is an adaption to an ad hoc seminar I created while a student at Duke University School of Law.
In this video I look at the infamous Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), where the US Supreme Court ruled that separate but equal was constitutional. This case helped usher in the Jim Crow era in America, and was a major blow to all the Reconstruction Amendments and civil rights laws passed after the Civil War. This case is fascinating and has many interesting components to it. Watch the video to learn just a little about this very pivotal case.
Books Mention:
1. Black Trials: Citizenship from the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste by Mark Weiner
2. Inherently Unequal: The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court by Lawrence Goldstone
3. We as Freeman: Plessy v. Ferguson by Keith Weldon Medley
–Until Next Time–
Palooke
