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Pedimental frieze on the Supreme Courthouse

Jim Crow Stories: Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

Source: PBS

In 1896, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of “separate but equal” laws, which weren’t struck down until almost 60 years later in Brown v. Board of Education.

This entry was posted in An Age of Realism and tagged History on December 1, 2021 by Anita Hacker.

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