The cartoon shows the connection betweenPlessy v. FergusonandBrown v. Board of Educationas landmark civil rights cases.

ID: 6449 ~ Source: "In 1892 we were here ... when a New Orleanian tried to prove that justice is color blind," May 3, 1977, The Historic New Orleans Collection, Permanent Collection, Gift of Mr. John Churchill Chase and Mr. John W. Wilds, https://catalog.hnoc.org/web/arena/search#/entity/thnoc-archive/1979.167.18%20a/in-1892-we-were-here-...-when-a-new-orleanian-tried-to-prove-that-justice-is-color-blind.

This file appears in: Plessy's Legacies

The cartoon shows the connection betweenPlessy v. FergusonandBrown v. Board of Educationas landmark civil rights cases.

This file appears in: Plessy's Legacies

Plessy's Legacies

By Lauren Smith, Johnnie Roberson, and Erika Heppner

In the immediate aftermath of Plessy v. Ferguson, the case itself received relatively little attention. Homer Plessy paid the twenty-five dollar fine for violating the Separate Car Act and went to work as a laborer. Before the ruling, segregation…