Tag: civil rights movement
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Revisiting a Classic from the Civil Rights Era: Black Like Me
The premise of Black Like Me couldn’t be more succinct or effective: a white journalist goes under medical treatments to turn his skin black in order to understand the black experience in the deep south in 1959. This is an astonishing and gripping self-penned account of John Howard Griffin’s decision to try something radical. What’s the…
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Know Your History: 1896 Plessy v. Furgeson
In 1892, Homer Plessy was jailed for sitting on a white rail car. Homer was extremely light skinned and could have passed for a white person, but under the law of Louisiana, he wasn’t ‘white enough’. The case, which eventually made it to the Supreme Court in 1896, centered around Louisiana’s segregation laws and whether…
Author Mark W Sasse 