Archive for April, 2002

The Fallacy of Equal Separation: Plessy v. Ferguson

Filed under General on April 22, 2002

In 1896, the United States Supreme Court passed a decision that would greatly affect American society for the next fifty-eight years, and the repercussions of which are still felt today, more than one hundred years later. The case in question was Plessy versus Ferguson, an appellate case from the Louisiana Supreme Court. Homer […]