1 Jan 1896 Jahr - Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

Beschreibung:

- Separate railway carriages
- Does the Louisiana law requiring separate carriages for white and colored people violate the 13th and 14th amendment?
- No, because this is not slavery; No, because
- Theme: Legislature is not responsible for social equality; narrow interpretation of Reconstruction amendments; hardening of racial lines through law
- Related: Slaughterhouse Cases, Pace v. State,
- Counter: Progressivism and New Deal

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