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We As Freemen: Plessy v. Ferguson

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Essential reading on segregation.

In June 1892, a thirty-year-old shoemaker named Homer Plessy bought a first class railway ticket from his native New Orleans to Covington, north of Lake Pontchartrain. The two-hour commute had hardly begun when Plessy was once arrested and got rid of from the train. Though Homer Plessy was once born a free man of color and enjoyed relative equality even as growing up in Reconstruction-era New Orleans, by 1890 he could no longer ride in the same carriage with white passengers. Plessy’s act of civil disobedience was once designed to test the constitutionality of the Separate Car Act, probably the most many Jim Crow laws that threatened the freedoms gained by blacks after the Civil War. This in large part forgotten case mandated separate-but-equal remedy and established segregation as the law of the land. It would be fifty-eight years before this ruling was once reversed by Brown v. Board of Education. Keith Weldon Medley brings to life the players in this landmark trial, from the crusading black columnist Rodolphe Desdunes and the other members of the Comité des Citoyens to Albion W. Tourgee, the outspoken creator who represented Plessy, to John Ferguson, a reformist carpetbagger who nonetheless felt that he had to pass judgement on Plessy guilty.

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