Dr Michael Ross
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 6 Aug
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But there's just this moment of this kind of romance of reunion, as one scholar has put it, in the 1890s,
where people are willing to kind of take this argument that it's good that the North won the Civil War and that slavery was ended, but that Reconstruction was a corrupt failure and it's now time to allow a new South to handle race relations as they wish.
Yes.
What Louisiana argues in this case, in defense of the law, is that when black people and white people are together in close quarters in public accommodations, there's often friction, sometimes violence.
And it's just a reasonable police measure
to separate the races.
And it doesn't, as Henry Billings Brown in the majority opinion says, that doesn't say that one race is better than the other.
It just says that they're going to be separate in separate but equal positions.
But Harlan says, we all know what's going on here.
Don't tell me this is simply a police power.
The idea here is to create a cast that white people don't want to sit with black people.
And where Henry Billings Brown and the majority says, the underlying fallacy of the plaintiff's argument consists of the assumption that the enforced separation stamps the colored race with a badge of inferiority
And Harlan says, we know what's happening here.
This is cast.
And our Constitution is colorblind.
And he will go on to say that I think in the future they will view this decision as pernicious in its effects as the Dred Scott decision.
And then he says the thin disguise.
of equal accommodations for passengers and railroad coaches, will not mislead anyone nor atone for the wrong this day done.
No, that's absolutely fair to say.
The policies came from the states, but when the Supreme Court gave its imprimatur to the Jim Crow system in Plessy, the states in the South then go hog wild, and they start passing separate laws for separation in restaurants, in water fountains, in blood supplies, in separate Bibles to swear on in court.
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