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To: billbears

The 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments swept all of that aside, that is until the Supreme Court reinstated legal segregation with Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896.


117 posted on 02/21/2006 9:08:18 AM PST by Vicomte13 (La Reine est gracieuse, mais elle n'est pas gratuit.)
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To: Vicomte13

Legal segregation and the black codes were not the same thing.


123 posted on 02/21/2006 9:10:50 AM PST by Austin Willard Wright
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