{"id":8840,"date":"2010-09-11T03:53:35","date_gmt":"2010-09-11T03:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=8840"},"modified":"2010-09-14T00:42:54","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T00:42:54","slug":"plessy-v-ferguson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=8840","title":{"rendered":"Plessy v. Ferguson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plessy_v._Ferguson\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Plessy v. Ferguson<\/strong><\/a><\/em>, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), is a landmark United States Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States, upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in private businesses (particularly railroads), under the doctrine of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Separate_but_equal\" target=\"_blank\">separate but equal<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia<\/p>\n<p><strong>Comments by Steven F. Riley:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Plessy<\/em> decision is significant in that it not only gave constitutional legitimacy to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=4781\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Crow<\/a> segregation, <strong>it also effectively codifed the so-called \u201c<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3208\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>one-drop rule<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u201d which designated anyone with <em>any<\/em> known quantity of African ancestry\u2014no mater how small\u2014as black.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Homer_Plessy\" target=\"_blank\">Homer Plessy<\/a>,\u00a0(of one-eighth African\u00a0ancestry)\u00a0was by all appearances\u00a0\u00a0\u201cvisibly white\u201d and in fact had to announce his appearance on the railroad car in which he was traveling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), is a landmark United States Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States, upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in private businesses (particularly railroads), under the doctrine of \u201cseparate but equal\u201d. Wikipedia Comments by Steven F. Riley: The Plessy decision is significant in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1467,20],"tags":[579],"class_list":["post-8840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-definitions","category-law","category-usa","tag-plessy-v-ferguson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}