{"id":46,"date":"2012-02-04T13:50:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T13:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/conhist2\/?p=46"},"modified":"2012-07-23T11:18:54","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T11:18:54","slug":"day-three-the-plessy-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/conhist2\/2012\/02\/day-three-the-plessy-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Day Three: The Plessy Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/conhist2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/NotHomerPlessyPBSPinchback.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/conhist2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/NotHomerPlessyPBSPinchback.jpg\" alt=\"1875 Portrait of PBS Pinchback\" title=\"NotHomerPlessyPBSPinchback\" width=\"280\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-47\" \/><\/a> Last Monday, we suggested that the 1896 <em>Plessy v. Ferguson<\/em> case is (yet another) endpoint to Reconstruction. With it, the last practical enforcement of nearly any part of the Radical Republican&#8217;s program for black civil rights disappeared and it marked the beginning of a 50-year period of Jim Crow state legislation across the South. This is the &#8220;racial nadir,&#8221; the codification of racial segregation and legal inferiority of Americans of color. <\/p>\n<p>Please read and bring with you the slender (but packed!) Bedford book on the case. <\/p>\n<p>Note: this photograph is NOT of Homer Plessy (although it shows up all over the web as his portrait), but rather <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/P._B._S._Pinchback\">Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback<\/a>, who briefly served as the state&#8217;s first non-white governor during the Reconstruction era in 1872-1873. Just to clarify. I have made the same mistake myself. <\/p>\n<p><strong>And here are some additional links and resources we may use in class: <\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/nutrias.org\/info\/aarcinfo\/notabl2.htm#plessy\">Brief bio of Plessy<\/a>, New Orleans Public Library, &#8220;Notable African Americans from Louisiana&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/plessy-and-ferguson-descendants-of-a-divisive-supreme-court-decision-unite\/2011\/06\/02\/AGji3hJH_story.html\">Plessy and Ferguson: Descendants of a Divisive Supreme Court Decision Unite<\/a>,&#8221; Washington Post 5 June 2011<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oyez.org\/cases\/1851-1900\/1895\/1895_210\"><em>Plessy v. Ferguson<\/em> 163 US 537 (1896)<\/a> at Oyez Project<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourdocuments.gov\/doc.php?flash=true&#038;doc=52\">Plessy v. Ferguson<\/a> at Our Documents<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yale.edu\/ynhti\/pubs\/A5\/wolff.html\">Related lesson plans,<\/a> by Karen Wolff from the Yale-New Haven CT Teachers Institute<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/law2.umkc.edu\/faculty\/projects\/ftrials\/conlaw\/sepbutequal.htm\">Constitutional Conflicts: The Road to Brown<\/a>, on Doug Linder&#8217;s site &#8220;Exploring Constitutional Law&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimcrowhistory.org\/resources\/gateway\/gw_plessyvferg.htm\">Jim Crow Gateway Resources on Plessy v. Ferguson<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.streetlaw.org\/en\/landmark\/cases\/plessy_v_ferguson\">The Plessy case on Streetlaw.org<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasbar.com\/civics\/High%20School%20cases\/plessy-v-ferguson.html\">Texas HS Civics online lesson on the case <\/a>(Oyez, Oyez, Oh Yay! &#8211; created by the State Bar of Texas)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachersdomain.org\/resource\/bf09.socst.us.const.plessy\/\">3.5 minute resource video on the case<\/a>, from PBS &#8220;T<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/jimcrow\/\">he Rise and Fall of Jim Crow<\/a>,&#8221; posted on the Teacher&#8217;s Domain<br \/>\nCharles Thompson, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.louisville.edu\/library\/collections\/harlan\/dissent\">Harlan&#8217;s Great Dissent<\/a>,&#8221; <i>Kentucky Humanities<\/i> 1996 (1), posted at the Brandeis School of Law<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Monday, we suggested that the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson case is (yet another) endpoint to Reconstruction. With it, the last practical enforcement of nearly any part of the Radical Republican&#8217;s program for black civil rights disappeared and it marked the beginning of a 50-year period of Jim Crow state legislation across the South. 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