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Kenneth Mack

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Plessy v. Ferguson at 125

One hundred and twenty five years after the Supreme Court’s decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, there are still lessons to be gleaned from the case.

by Kenneth Mack, Rachel Reed via Harvard Law Bulletin on May 19, 2021

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Spectators and witnesses at the trial for a case involving an automobile accident, Oxford, North Carolina, 1939.

A ‘Wary Faith’ in the Courts

A groundbreaking new book demonstrates that even during the days of slavery, African Americans knew a lot more about legal principles than has been imagined.

by Eric Foner via New York Review of Books on March 14, 2024

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