Tag: Louisiana

• Rights, The Declaration of Independence, & the Louisiana School System

  In this fascinating article by Tom Lindsey Is the Declaration of Independence Based on a Lie which I’ve started using in my history and government class, Lindsey brings up a rejected bill in the Louisiana State Assembly which would have required school students to recite a portion of the Declaration of Independence before school. Representative Norton, who…

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  August 8, 2016

  History & Culture

  abraham lincoln, civil rights, declaration of independence, john locke, Louisiana, martin luther king jr., reciting declaration in schools, slavery

• 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…

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  April 14, 2014

  History & Culture, USA

  brown v. the board of education, civil rights movement, homer plessy, jim crow laws, Louisiana, plessy v. furgeson, segregation