Tag: plessy v. furgeson

• 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…

  sassevn

  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

• What is History? An Essay

  Every once in a while I like to post a “proper” essay with citations and everything. This one tries to answer the question, “What is History?” There is no simple answer to this question as you will see.  History is an educated guess on a wing and a prayer.  Mere shadows of the past come…

  sassevn

  February 25, 2014

  History & Culture

  brown v. board, Bui Tin, civil rights, defining history, Dred Scott, George W. Bush, Gettysburg, historical veracity, Israel, plessy v. furgeson, pseudohistory, viet cong, what is history