today in black history

May 18, 2024

In 1896, U.S. Supreme Court upholds Plessy v. Ferguson, beginning Jim Crow or de jure segregation and ending Reconstruction.

Jeri Williams from San Diego, California

POSTED: January 20, 2009, 2:41 am

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