'Not all anniversaries are good ones. Thursday marked a troubled one in American history. On this date in 1896, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Plessy v. Ferguson.' -Adam Carrington
law mandating segregated railway cars according to race. The 7-1 outcome declared that legally prescribed segregation did not necessarily violate the 14th Amendment. So long as the state segregated on basically equal terms for all races and did so for a reasonable purpose, then such laws would be upheld, the court decided. Hence, we get from this case the phrase “separate but equal,” which was used to justify the Jim Crow era, especially in the South.
Though legal segregation has long been illegal now, we could still learn much from Harlan and his vision of true equality. Race-based programs still exist, and though they claim no animus toward any person based on their skin color, the effects are much the same. If one digs to the bottom of affirmative action, as well as diversity, equity, and inclusion requirements, for example, one usually finds racial assumptions, implicit or explicit.
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