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I missed this a few years ago. I regularly lecture about Homer Plessy and his work in 1892 to fight racial segregation in the American South. His work backfired when the Supreme Court immortalized him with their disastrous Plessy v Ferguson decision enshrining racial segregation as constitutional. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59888947 #segregation #CivilRights #JimCrow #PlessyVFerguson #HomerPlessy #SCOTUS

Homer Plessy: Pardon for 'separate but equal' civil rights figure

Homer Plessy's arrest 130 years ago led to one of the most criticised Supreme Court decisions in US history.

Lyle Solla-Yates

@Lyle@cville.online · 13 hours ago

Homer Plessy: Pardon for 'separate but equal' civil rights figure

Homer Plessy's arrest 130 years ago led to one of the most criticised Supreme Court decisions in US history.

Adam Greenfield

@adamgreenfield@social.coop · 4 months ago

@wb2ifs That’s right. It’s not incumbent upon us to complete the Great Work, but neither are we at liberty to desist from it, etc.

Jesse Alexander, WB2IFS/3

@wb2ifs@mastodon.hams.social replied · 4 months ago

@adamgreenfield yes but there is intentionality. We bend the arc towards justice it doesn’t just go. I am more than the answer to the prayers of my enslaved ancestors. I am the result of their actions. I was born in Brooklyn and not in the south because my family wanted something Better than #segregation and they had the means to make it so.