Sound Smart: Plessy v. Ferguson | History

Historian Yohuru Williams talks about the Plessy v. Ferguson case and its effects on the Civil Rights Movement.

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who watching in 2020 because they have to for online school

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I know I'm screwed when I'm researching on YouTube.

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The transcript and word search are really coming in clutch for notes

[JohnnyM]

When you see pictures of Plessey you would never dream that he was part African American, he looks so very much of whitte European ancestry. This makes his action all the greater because he could have just continued his life as a white man, no one but he would know. What a good decent and fair man he was.

[savagelion]

Thank i so much this will help me alot

[kimlibera]

One of the things I point out to people as to why SCOTUS is not obliged nor should it follow precedents in their rulings is that human beings can evolve socially. If you insist on following precedent, then that means we should have Plessy v Ferguson or for that matter Dred Scott. Societies we hope to evolve in their critical thinking instead of just using barbs.

[bedrock]

anyone else got a social studies teacher thats tells you to look at the video (but in reality you just click another video)

[kingofnone]

why does my teacher send me to these videos where I can't actually understand what this man says at some points :/

[thanosave]

I wonder how would Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas would have voted in Plessy versus Ferguson??

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sent here by my teacher who is here in 2021 ?

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I'm here for my senior English class :(

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Christmas parties in tulsa in 1975. New years eve. Night before 1976.

[privatedeletebuttongooglei]

The Edna Gladney home for unwed mothers is where I ended up driving myself to the very next day i found I was pregnant for the very first time in my life.

[samwilson]

sad time in history; thank goodness that passed by the time I was in 1st grade and I went with all skin colors. Mother told me horrible stories.

[Angelo-mgvg]

Can anybody help me with an idea on how to make a Powerpoint about this, i'm desperate.

[MrScoopss]

Did U.S. Supreme Court rulings in the late 19th century resolve the issue of racial segregation in the “New South” once and for all?

[BEANSTON]

hey can u guys gimme Explain the problem.
Explain the decision.
Why do you Agree or Disagree with this decision?
Lmao

[privatedeletebuttongooglei]

The middle name Adolphus does not describe steve busch

[johnhumphrey]

Brown only partially overturned Plessy v Ferguson.