Interviews |
Plessy v. Ferguson was the 1896 Supreme Court decision that most deeply embedded the fallacious “separate but equal” doctrine into U.S. jurisprudence, and that reflected and facilitated the strength of segregationists in American society. This section of the interview begins with a discussion of the curious fact that much of the historical writing on Plessy has remained caught within the conceptual framework that guided the now-discredited Plessy majority.