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Jim Crow's Legal Blueprint: Breaking Down Plessy v. Ferguson
In 1896, the Supreme Court handed down a decision that gave racial segregation the full weight of American law. In this episode, we go deep on Plessy v. Ferguson - the case, the man, and the machinery it put in motion. Homer Plessy was a light-skinned Black man who deliberately boarded a whites-only train car to challenge Louisiana's Separate Car Act. The Court ruled 7-1 against him, and "separate but equal" became the law of the land for the next 58 years.
We break down what the justices actually argued, what Justice John Marshall Harlan's lone dissent revealed about the conscience of that…
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