Plessey

Absent that government power, the crack in the dyke would have widened, and the Plessey trickle would have become a flood

Public Transit and Public Choice, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Are we not allowed to judge the Supreme Court that decided Plessey versus Ferguson, either?

Matthew Yglesias » The Strange Case of Woodrow Wilson 2009

Absent that government power, the crack in the dyke would have widened, and the Plessey trickle would have become a flood it does not say:

Public Transit and Public Choice, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Even though she was grown up and working at the Plessey electronics factory, she still had to ask Dad if she could go out in the evening.

The Woman I Was Born to Be Susan Boyle 2010

The civil rights cases, particularly in the early stage when Plessey and everything it stood for was being rejected, practically invited an element of moralizing triumphalism -- frankly, it would have been hard to avoid given the realities of the time.

John Roberts says: Under Rehnquist "the method of analysis and argument shifted to the more solid grounds of legal argument." Ann Althouse 2009

Please recall that this is nearly contemporaneous with Plessey.

The Volokh Conspiracy » “Drugs Have Won”: 2009

That election pulled down the “racist color curtain” for the next century, and arguably brought us the Ku Klux Klan, lynching, Plessey v. Ferguson, separate-but-equal, Jim Crow, and a century of rigid American Apartheid, that still exists across the American landscape today.

The Racial Card Being Played from the Bottom of the Deck 2008

Then in 1954, the Supreme Court ruled that racial discrimination in public schools was unconstitutional after a series of cases that had chipped away at the “separate but equal” standard upheld by Plessey v. Ferguson in 1896.

Jamal Simmons: Remembering Rosa Parks and the Movement She Was a Part of 2008

The case of Plessey v. Ferguson in the same year, which affirmed segregation laws, only served to regenerate the Democratic Party's interest in white supremacy rule.

Yuna Shin: North Carolina Provides Insight Into Changing Southern Politics 2008

Ann - Commendations for your repeatedly reading the dissent of Mr. Justice Harlan in Plessey - a straightforward approach to the Constitution and racial discrimination, both direct and reverse.

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