Lynching

Good Morning POU.  We continue to look at the caste system codified in law, known as Jim Crow. In 1896, In the seminal case of Plessy v. Ferguson, The Supreme Court sided with the South and ruled in an eight-to-one vote, that "equal but separate accommodations were constitutional. That ruling would stand for the next sixty years. Now with a new century approaching, blacks … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: The History and Legacy of Jim Crow