Reply #11: Speaking of history and "Southern Discomfort" [View All]

[Uncle Joe]

What is the back story behind Plessy vs Ferguson?

Which Presidents appointed these Justices and from where did they; come from, both Presidents and Justices?

If neo-Confederates are interested in history, let’s talk history. Since Lee surrendered at Appomattox, Confederate symbols have tended to be more about white resistance to black advances than about commemoration. In the 1880s and 1890s, after fighting Reconstruction with terrorism and after the Supreme Court struck down the 1875 Civil Rights Act, states began to legalize segregation. For white supremacists, iconography of the “Lost Cause” was central to their fight; Mississippi even grafted the Confederate battle emblem onto its state flag.

But after the Supreme Court allowed segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, Jim Crow was basically secure. There was less need to rally the troops, and Confederate imagery became associated with the most extreme of the extreme: the Ku Klux Klan.


http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0163_0537_ZO.html

Thanks for the thread, underpants.