Very eloquently put, Dr Richardson, tying voting rights to the laws over everyday treatment of our neighbors. Most Americans wouldn’t make that connection.
I also saw this morning that the Governor of Louisiana posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy for the crime of sitting in the White Car of a train. The law, which was challenged in the Su…
Very eloquently put, Dr Richardson, tying voting rights to the laws over everyday treatment of our neighbors. Most Americans wouldn’t make that connection.
I also saw this morning that the Governor of Louisiana posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy for the crime of sitting in the White Car of a train. The law, which was challenged in the Supreme Court - Plessy v Ferguson - was almost unanimously upheld, with one dissenting vote from Justice John Harlan. Justice Harlan stated that the Constitution is color blind, and that it was “wrong to let the states regulate the enjoyment of citizens' civil rights solely on the basis of race.”
I hope what we do today won’t take 6+ decades to correct, or 130 years to pardon.
Very eloquently put, Dr Richardson, tying voting rights to the laws over everyday treatment of our neighbors. Most Americans wouldn’t make that connection.
I also saw this morning that the Governor of Louisiana posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy for the crime of sitting in the White Car of a train. The law, which was challenged in the Supreme Court - Plessy v Ferguson - was almost unanimously upheld, with one dissenting vote from Justice John Harlan. Justice Harlan stated that the Constitution is color blind, and that it was “wrong to let the states regulate the enjoyment of citizens' civil rights solely on the basis of race.”
I hope what we do today won’t take 6+ decades to correct, or 130 years to pardon.
https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1335/john-marshall-harlan-i
Yesterday, CBS Mornings had this piece about Plessy v Ferguson and the subsequent pardon:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/descendants-plessy-v-ferguson-louisiana-pardon/
"...130 years after he stood up for the right to sit down in the whites only section of a train..."
The courtroom in which Plessy was convicted 130 years ago is to be renamed "The Homer Plessy Courtroom."
Plessy and Parks….every young person in our country should be required to study their courage.