Dr Michael Ross
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 6 Aug
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The railroads hated these laws because it meant they had to provide separate cars for the two races, very expensive, made them legally liable for enforcing it.
They notified the railroad that they were going to do it.
They had...
deliberately hired a police detective to be on the train so that when Plessy boards the train at New Orleans Press Street Station, they only go a short distance when the conductor, who knows what's going on, goes up to Plessy and says, are you a white man?
And he says, no, I'm not.
And he says, well, you have to move.
And Plessy says, I refuse.
And the conductor says, stop the train.
The detective who's in the car and knows this is happening jumps up and says, I'm going to arrest him.
They pull Plessy off the train, take him down to the recorder's court.
The detective swears out an affidavit, and the case of Plessy v. Ferguson is born.
And it is a test case.
They want him to be arrested so that they can file for a writ of habeas corpus saying the Louisiana law is unconstitutional.
get the case to federal court, and if all goes well, get the case to the United States Supreme Court, where they hope the justices there will use the 13th and 14th Amendments to undo a series of laws being passed in the South that are going to force separate accommodations in railroads, theaters, restaurants, and everywhere else.
Yes.
Again, they are a group of Afro-Creole men.
They come out of this intellectual and ideological tradition in New Orleans.
And they are people who have the economic means to
to challenge this law and are people who particularly chafed at it because they had this long tradition of considering themselves amongst the best men of New Orleans.
They're polished, they're smart, and they hated the fact that everywhere they went, they always had to consider whether they could go because they were of mixed race.
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