NewsMakers
Separate but Equal
Season 20 Episode 3 | 26m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
We talk about the 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case, Plessy v. Ferguson with Steve Luxenberg
Historians will point to Louisiana’s Separate Car Act of 1890 as the flashpoint of the Plessy v. Ferguson case. That’s when African American Homer Plessy refused to sit in a train car designated for blacks only. Here to tell us the history and impacts of the case is Steve Luxenberg, associate editor at The Washington Post and award-winning author of “Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson.
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NewsMakers is a local public television program presented by WGVU
NewsMakers
Separate but Equal
Season 20 Episode 3 | 26m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
Historians will point to Louisiana’s Separate Car Act of 1890 as the flashpoint of the Plessy v. Ferguson case. That’s when African American Homer Plessy refused to sit in a train car designated for blacks only. Here to tell us the history and impacts of the case is Steve Luxenberg, associate editor at The Washington Post and award-winning author of “Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson.
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