Dr Michael Ross
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 6 Aug
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Conductor says, you're going to have to move.
Plessy says, no.
They stop the train.
The detective jumps up.
Says, I've seen all this.
I'm arresting him.
Takes him down to the recorder's court and swears out an affidavit against him.
As Reconstruction is failing, the Republicans who are being voted out of office, in particular because a wave of anger that they're in charge as the economy collapses during a great economic panic of 1873.
leading to the longest depression in American history.
The Republicans are the ones who are committed to black rights in the South.
And as reconstruction is collapsing, they have a lame duck Congress.
And they're like, we're,
Dan, we're going to pass one law that's going to try to stave off what we see coming, and it's the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which guarantees equal access to public accommodations, any business licensed by a state, and to jury service.
And they justify the law saying it's authorized by the powers given to Congress by the 13th Amendment, which ended slavery, and by the 14th Amendment, which says no state can deny citizens equal protection of the laws or due process, etc.
And they say because businesses are licensed by the state, that's state action.
So a state that allows businesses to discriminate is violating the 14th Amendment.
And the Civil Rights Act is passed.
But then the Democrats come into the next Congress.
They take over.
They're not committed to enforcing it.
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