Dr Michael Ross
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 6 Aug
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We need to all start to kind of reconcile and get along the North and the South and take a slightly more hands-off approach and we'll trust the Southern governments that are now back in the control largely of white politicians.
To be generous and treat blacks fairly.
And that sense is only going to increase as we head into the 1890s, by the time we get to Plessy.
And by the time we get to Plessy, it's a whole new generation of justices, except for a few...
folks clinging on it is the sons it's that next generation that's on the court and they increasingly are buying into this idea that the north and south needs to shake hands over the bloody chasm and one of the ways we're going to do that is let the south handle their own racial affairs so it's a chosen it's a
It certainly is, because some of these folks, they're, you know, in their heart of hearts, they want African-Americans to receive a fair shake.
But at the same time, they don't want the constant North-South anger to continue.
Ferguson is a Yankee.
He is a judge in Louisiana.
He's one of many northern transplants in New Orleans.
He's originally from Martha's Vineyard, but he's a Democrat.
And he is on the side of the state government that is now trying to segregate the society.
and he is going to, at the lower court level, uphold the law and argue that Plessy was duly arrested, and it's because they are filing a writ of error arguing that he gets it wrong as it goes up to the
Louisiana Supreme Court, which is going to affirm his decision that his name becomes famously attached to the case.
So Plessy versus Ferguson, he's the judge that says this law is okay.
He's doing exactly what they want him to do.
They do not want him to side with Plessy.
They want to lose so that they can get to the case to the Supreme Court who can decide, if all goes well, that these laws mandating separate cars, separate but equal cars, are unconstitutional under the 13th and 14th Amendments.
He does know it's a staged thing, and he's aware of what he's doing.
But, of course, they want to uphold these laws.
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