Dr Michael Ross

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American History Hit · Plessy v. Ferguson: The Supreme Court Case That Enshrined Jim Crow · 6 Aug 2026 podcast

And the Committee of Citizens are writing to him about strategy.

What should we do here?

And eventually, as he learns the test case are underway, he volunteers to join the legal team.

And he and Louis Martinet from the Committee of Citizens have this wonderful correspondence and relationship where they are strategizing the Plessy v. Ferguson case.

It goes to the Supreme Court in 1894 or so, but then there's all kinds of delays.

The court in the 1890s has a huge docket, and it just keeps getting pushed off.

So we're not going to get Plessy until a few years later.

Yeah, here's the thing.

Everyone involved knows the stakes.

Martinet and, and, and Torjay, Torjay is like, say, if we lose, it's going to be bad.

And Martinet says it's worth the risk because living life under the constraints of this unfolding Jim Crow is like being in prison.

But by the time we get to the 1890s, there is a sense amongst many people in the North that they've just kind of had enough, that it's time for reconciliation of the North and South.

And they're tired of not people who are reading Torgé's columns, but of a lot of other people that this matter has been settled.

You know, we're going to let the South do it the way they want to do it.

And so the Plessy case is not drawing as much attention as it should have.

And as in retrospect, it's just impactfulness.

But the folks who are involved know the stakes.

It is, in retrospect.

If you're on the ground in the 1890s, these views have become kind of the centrist position.

that separate but equal is going to be okay, and that to a certain extent, some of the Republican judges are trusting that the South will be good to their word and that the facilities, if separate, are going to be equal, which we know in retrospect they never were.

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