and more than anything else with plessy v. ferguson, what it did was to constrain the 13th and 14th amendment which itself had the effect of constraining the 15th amendment. so your comment about our arguments today being very much traceable, back to plessy, and even beyond that is very much taken. the point of my payment was that it was about more than race. it was about personal identity. and in that regard, its reach continues to be with us and it's an insidious reach in that the common reading of plessy always takes to us separate but equal in regard to race but overlooks the fact that the central reasoning of the case extended state power over personal identity. in doing that, it allows and continues to allow states to determine who is who. which is an extension of slave law. which in fact allowed states to decide identity to the degree that it could decide that some human beings were not even persons at law. so today, as we look at a variety of questions, we have the sense that this state power which is exercised arbitra

of homer plessy. they met at a conference in new orleans ten years ago and it was so overwhelming to see them come together. they are about the same age so they lived through the same eras of history in new orleans with segregation and racial discrimination, but they came together and formed the plessy and ferguson foundation and for ten years we who are the board members and supporters of the foundation have worked in very many different areas of support to continue the thrust to eliminate racial segregation in our country and in our culture. louisiana is a very unique historical state. so many things happened in louisiana ahead of the wave of other -- of racial discrimination cases and lawsuits throughout the country. i happen to be involved in a family that led a lot of the civil rights activities from the 1920s until the 1960s and '70s with my dad and my mom and many other southern blacks and whites and people from the caribbean as well who came from haiti after the haitian revolution, the french,

because looking at plessy who could determine? he was in regard to this binary that the state had determined that either you were white or you were not white. and there you know when you consider that plus he was not identifiable and this plays into that long continuum. about the question of passing which is rich in in us literature. um, he had to be identified. to the conductor to create the challenge that carried the case forward. so we are at a point now where we have. continuing almost riotests discussions about individual identification whether we're talking about sexual preference whether we're talking about transgender. whatever we're talking about is the question of who gets to determine. what a person's identity should be is this a situation where? we are routinely asked to identify ourselves. in some context but in doing that we're asked to check a box where someone is already determined what the label of our identity. will be and so in that regard, the plusy question is one where we ask who am i right? who do i get to b

plessy, judge john h. ferguson.plessy did, who refused to move to the colored section of a public bus in the 1950s. it was the way that the plessy versus ferguson ruling played out that relates to what we're dealing with today. in that infamous ruling the justices found that there was nothing wrong with making mr. plessy and other colored riders use a separate car. quote, we consider the underwriting fallacy of plessy's argument to consist in the assumption that the enforced separation of the two races stamps the colored race with a badge of interiority. if this be so not found by anything in the act but solely because the colored race chooses to put that upon it. it was separate but so what. black people could ride, right? if they felt bad about it, no harm-no foul in america. that's basically the same argument that justice samuel alito used to justify the american voter movements. sure, having your polling place moved is no big deal and you get stuck standing in lines for seven hours but you can vote, right, event

tonight on american history tv a look into a supreme court landmark case plessy versus ferguson which solidified the separate but equal doctrine and provided legal protection to segregation laws passed by the states. scholars look at its impact on education and housing and how we still live with the legacy of the decision. we'll also look at the life and legacy of the first african american supreme court justice. they're good marshall and his impact on us history watch beginning at 8pm eastern. here on may 18 1896 the supreme court decided the landmark case plessy versus ferguson ruling that state segregation laws were constitutional and solidifying the separate but equal doctrine it wasn't until the 1954 brown versus board of education decision that the separate but equal doctrine began to unravel in this conference to commemorate its 125th anniversary scholars. look at the decisions impact on education and housing and the challenges moving forward the university of minnesota humphrey school of public affairs provided the video of the symposium, which it c

they also spoke about precedent, we are thinking here about plessy versus ferguson from 1896 and also gone long versus rice from 1927 a case that did involve schools and they made the traditional move that one would expect, that is to say that people have ordered their affairs. so in reliance on the legitimacy of racial segregation in schools and brown versus board of education they claimed has come along and pulled the rug out from under them. they also spoke about constitutional structure, we're thinking about principles of federalism, what they would refer to as states rights and they also say that this was illegitimate as a decision from the supreme court of the united states. the framers of the constitution have article v by goes to a constitutional amendment and that is the proper place to lead to racial integration of schools, this he also spoke about the separation of powers. then they also spoke about tradition or what professor bobbitt would refer to as the ethos of the constitution and they say that the decision disregards the sort of respect for the parental control of edu

plessy versus ferguson which solidified the separate but equal option. looking at education and housing and how we still live with the legacy of the decision. we'll also look at the life and legacy of the first african-american supreme court justice. thurgood marshall and his impact on u.s. history. watch tonight beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern. >>> next, author john rees talks about the experiences of african-american continental soldiers. the office of historic alexander re, alexandria on the american revolution and freud video. >>> it is my pleasure to introduce john rees, specializing in the common soldiers experience during the war for american independence from 1755. probably good that we're on right after lunch since we did all eat. he was a columnist, and has written for various publications. during the journal of the american revolution. [ inaudible ] 1785 to 1783, published in 2019. so he discusses the research of these good soldiers. >> well, it's really good to be here. when i think of misconceptions of the american revolution, i think the pos

ferguson -- plessy v. ferguson, and he sees the conditions of african-americans. thing called the -- [inaudible] duboise is doing this hard, nitty-gritty work for neighbors asking questions, surveying. in another class tonight, we will look at a book called teddy's corner which is about washington, d.c., and it's a study of a person went in the one neighborhood. duboise went in this whole city. you know, i'm doing a study for the city of washington, d.c. and trying to find why so many african-americans have been forced out. but the problem is that the city government and the people who keep the statistics have no systematic way of keeping it. it's almost as if they didn't care. so many african-americans are being pushed out, and people who decry gentryification are in some ways happy with it because it creates a neighborhood -- [inaudible] but what about the people who have been forced out? so duboise looks at that. you see, people talking about poverty, and often it's not understood. we have poverty in washington d.c. yeah, but a kid who's 13, or when, say, 6 or

. >>> tonight on american history tv, a look into a supreme court landmark case plessy versus ferguson. scholars look at its impact on education and housing and how we still live with the legacy of the decision. we'll also look at the life and legacy of thurgood marshall and his impact on u.s. history. watch tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern. ♪♪ >>> next on "american history tv" author michael harris discusses the 1777 battle of brandywine and misconceptions surrounding general john sullivan's role in the battle. >> it's my pleasure to introduce our last speaker today, michael harris has worked for the national park service here and at brandywine battlefield. he has conducted numerous tours which i've had the pleasure to take advantage of these. his second campaign, germantown, was released in 2020. michael is a graduate of the university of mary washington and the american military university. to close this out, welcome, michael, with general john sullivan, the battle of brandywine. now, here michael has put in the bio. i'm supposed to say, go, caps, because you're a phillies fan. our wiza

. >> yang: his dissent in the, in plessy vs.guson, which established the doctrine o separate but equal, was sort of the roadmap for thurgood marshall in brown vs. board of education. and today, harlan is a hero to both sides, to conservative legal scholars and justices on the supreme court and also liberal scholars. how-- talk a little bit about that. >> conservatives see harlan as a positive figure, as a person who believed in the original intent and plain meaning of the constitution when he stood up for equality in plessy v. ferguson. he was saying equal protection means equal protection. he was also saying the people who passed that amendment intended to create a state of equality for african-americans. liberals, on the other hand, will look at him and say, here's a man who had a real sense of how the supreme court's decisions can affect people on the ground. >> yang: you also say that, that harlan was unique in that his dissents eventually became the law of the land, that there was no there hasn't been as forceful a dissente

>>> tonight on american history tv, a look into a supreme court landmark case, plessy versus ferguson, which solidified the separate but equal doctrine and segregation laws pasted by the states. scholars look at its impact on education and housing and how we live with the legacy of the decision and we'll also look at the life and legacy of the first african-american supreme court justice, thurgood marshal, and his impact on u.s. history. watch tonight, beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern. >>> the office of historic alexandria in partnership with the emerging revolutionary war hosted a symposium on the war. next four presenters take part in a final discussion and answer audience questions about misconceptions about the american revolution. the office provided the video. >> since this is about misconceptions or hindsights of 2020ish, 2021, i'm going to throw this out to the package whoever wants to respond first, what is one misconception either that was not covered or covered by a different panelist in general topics. what's one misconception that she missed picking on my fellow park ranger

rep.cohen: i think of it as analogous to plessy v ferguson. plessy with the hayes tilden agreement that was a pox on both parties, the court said separate but equal. it is like that question that if this -- is it like this? professor stephanopoulos: that is an inflammatory analogy. i would not say that the current measures are really the equivalent of jim crow. i think they are more fairly described as the intent and the racial disparities of the jim crow area -- era are not present here but we have nominally neutral restrictions of voting that end up causing predictable and substantial racial disparities. these are not the huge racial disparities of the late 19th century. which is why i do not think that jim crow 2.0. use the upper left election -- you do see a proliferation of measures that disproportionately make it harder for minority citizens to vote. rep.cohen: do you agree with professor rosenberg that this is a canary in a coal mine? professor stephanopoulos: it was not a canary in a coal mine. it is the call by itself on fire. this is

versus for or in in the courts in plessy versus ferguson. so if you just say here is a representative sample of the reimposition of white supremacy, then it doesn't have a kind of organic sense of this is my story of my people. this is my story of me deciding that you can't even enjoy the freedom that we begrudgingly gave you and that you can take the the confederate flag. it's not the confederate flag. the confederate flag is a different flag the flag that we call the confederates flag is one of many battle flags of the army of northern virginia, which was adopted by the ku klux klan and it went into the state flags went into mississippi at that period 1880s nineties went into the other state flags of the old confederacy after 1954. hmm. what happened in 1954? let me see. was there a supreme court decision that might have prompted some sort of in, you know, individual resistance. yes, that's exactly right. and so it's not even the flag of the confederacy. it's it's the it's the flag. it's like isis right? it's like the it's like al qaeda. i

like dred scott, like plessy v ferguson, like minor behalf or seth, which denied the women the right to vote, or burn lv illinois which denied women the opportunity to become lawyers. these are cases that should be part of the lexicon when we are thinking about equality denied to vulnerable people. when you talk about, senator blumenthal, the legacy of privacy being ensconced in our supreme court jurisprudence, let's add to that graves law. let's add loving v. virginia. a case which provided for interventional -- interracial unions to take place in the united states. you mentioned whole women's health, a case in which justice kennedy sided with the majority in striking down two texas antiabortion laws. and june v. russo, which john -- justice roberts sided with the majority. if you will allow me one more moment. it strikes me that we should be thinking about perhaps brown v. board of education, because in the backdrop of whole women's h ealth, or even roe v. wade, we see these cases that seek to undermine the constitutional right to be able to terminate a pregnancy. and it reminds me

plessy versus ferguson which solidified the separate but equal option. looking at education and housing and how we still live with the legacy of the decision. we'll also look at the life and legacy of the first african-american supreme court justice. thurgood marshall and his impact on u.s. history. watch tonight beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern. >>> next, author john rees talks about the experiences of african-american continental soldiers. the office of historic alexander re, alexandria on the american revolution and freud video. >>> it is my pleasure to introduce john rees, specializing in the common soldiers experience during the war f

just like dred scott, like plessy vs. ferguson, like june vs. russo, or burn versus illinois which denied women the opportunity to become. lawyers now these are cases that should be a part of the lexicon when we are thinking about a quality denied to vulnerable people. when you talk about, senator blumenthal, the legacy of privacy being ensconced in our supreme court jurisprudence, let us add to that ross well, let's add to that loving the virginia, for which a case provided for interracial unions to take place in the united states. and you mentioned hole women's health, a case that justice kennedy sided with a majority in in striking down to texas anti abortion laws. and june vs. russo, which chief justice john roberts sided with the majority. in that case also to strike down a louisiana law. if you allow me one more moment, it strikes me that we should be thinking about perhaps brown be -- the board of education. because in the backdrop of whole women's health, or even roe v. wade, we see these cases that seek to undermine the constitutional r

tonight on american history tv a look into a supreme court landmark case, plessy versus ferguson which solidified the separate but equal doctrine and provided legal protection to segregation laws passed by the states. scholars look at its impact on education and housing and how we still live with the legacy of the decision. we will look at the life and legacy of the first african-american supreme court justice thurgood marshall and his impact on u.s. history. watch tonight beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern. >> each week american history tvs american artifacts visits museums and historic places an up next we travel to philadelphia's independence national historical park to learn about congress hall, the meeting place of the u.s. house and senate between 1790 and 1800, our guide a park ranger matthew ifill. >> we are standing in the old house of representatives in a building that we call congress hall, although originally it was built as a county courthouse for philadelphia for most of its history that's exactly what it was, but in the years that the city of washington, d.c. is being built

. >>> tonight on american history tv, a lock into a supreme court landmark case, plessy versus fergusonch solidified the separate but equal doctrine and provided legal protection to segregation laws passed by the state. scholars look at its impact on education and housing and how we still live with the legacy of the decision. we'll also look at the life and legacy of the first african-american supreme court justice hur good marshal and his impact on u.s. history. watch tonight beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern. ♪♪ >>> weekends on c-span 2 are an intellectual feast. every saturday american history tv documents america's story and on sundays "book tv" brings you the latest in nonfiction books and authors. funding for c-span2 comes from these television companies and more, including comcast. >> you think this is just a community center? >> no. it's way more than that. >> comcast is partnering with a thousand community centers to create way-ify enabled listings so that families can get anything. >> comcast along with television companies support c-span2 is a public service. >> during the revol

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. >> i think it also reflects a deeper view that he had, after all he, was the lawyer that got plessy reversed in brown and he would say to us this is a living constitution and when it matters we ought to not feel impeded from reassessing, if you look at the speech on the bi centennial of the constitution he said the glory of the constitution is its amendability, it was refreshed in 1868, it took long a time but that eventually the court got it right. so absolutely capitol punishment based on his own experience as a criminal defense lawyer is something he cared deeply about but there's also philosophical view what he regarded as a wrong decision. >> i'm not sure everyone's fully away that the justice spent by far the better part -- larger part of his career trying criminal cases, defending rape and murder he charges time after time in very unsafe venues for him. >> i remember once he said to us, he said, well, when a jury brought back descendants from life in imprisonment that's when he absolutely the guy was innocent. [ laughter ] >> yeah, he told a lot of stories in his life. not su

. >>> tonight on american history tv, a look into a supreme court landmark case plessy versus ferguson. scholars look at its impact on education and housing and how we still live with the legacy of the decision. we'll also look at the life and legacy of thurgood marshall and his impact on u.s. history. watch tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern.

dating back to the 19th century, the 1875 civil rights act and the civil rights cases, dating back to plessyrsus ferguson, mobile 1982. of course, shelby county versus holder and last week's decision. we are at such a moment. we're litigating at the legal defense fund in georgia, challenging their voter suppression law, challenging florida's voter suppression law. i told the president, we will not be able to litigate our way out of this threat to black citizenship, voting, and political participation. amy: that isherrilyn ifill of the naacp legal defense fund and vice president harris announced a $25 million dnc investment to aid voting access head of the 2022 midterm elections. cliff albright, you are talking to us from atlanta and the 2022 is very important both senate seats were taken by democrats, which is clearly -- has clearly been a great motivation not only in georgia for the republicans, but around the country, to get rid of voters on voting rolls, certainly in georgia. if you can talk about what is happened there, reverend while phil warnock is up again in 2022. -- rev. raphael war

it is some years after plessy v. ferguson is, separate but equal, but he goes to the birthplace of american democracy, and he sees the conditions of african-americans. and it's the -- does something called the -- [inaudible] duboise is doing his, this hard, nitty-gritty work asking questions, surveying. and we will look at a book about washington, d.c. and the struggles, and it's a study of just winning one neighborhood. and duboise went in this whole city. you know, i'm doing a study for the city on washington d.c. i'm trying to find about why so many african-americans have been forced out. but the problem is that the city government and the planners and people who keep the statistics have no systematic way of keeping it. it's almost as if they didn't care. i suppose they do, but so many african-americans are being forced out, and the city's changing so much, and people who decry gentrification yet in some ways are happy with it because it creates a neighborhood where there are more young, well-off. but what about t

after all, he was the lawyer who got plessy reversed in brown and i think he would say to us this isa living constitution and when it matters we ought to not feel impeded from reassessing. if you look at the speech he gave on the bicentennial of the constitution he says exactly that in that the glory of the constitution is its amend ability, that it was refreshed in 1868, that it took too long a time but that eventually the court got it right. and so absolutely we ought to not felix peaded from reassessing. if you look at the speech he gave on the bicentennial of the constitution and the glory of the constitution is that it was refreshed in 1868. that it took -- it took too long of a time but that eventually the court got it right. and so absolutely capital punishment based on his own personal experience as a criminal defense lawyer was something that he cared deeply about but a philosophical view not to be locked into what he regards as a wrong decision. >> i'm not sure everyone is aware that the justice spent by far the better part of his career trying criminal cases. defending rap

but from plessy versus ferguson, about who got to sit where on a train, to the montgomery bus boycott they've never been separated. >> is that a role -- is there a role the federal government has in saying here is how we look at it and fix it over time. >> i think there is. and it's something we tried to make clear from the moment i came in this department. for example, if a community is trying to apply for a federal grant for dollars my department oversees. one of the things we expect to see is that the voices of underserved and overburdened people impacted by that that those voices are heard, part of the decision-making process. at the end of the day the day the voices of those excluded have to be in the lead in shaping solutions. and when they are, often the entire community is better off. >> well the rest of my conversation secretary buttigieg airs tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. eastern here on msnbc. we're talking climate change how smart sustainable infrastructure can help save the planet. >>> i'm in portland oregon right now. and there is arguably no place more burdened by the climate c

it is in the class of plessi, in the class of the dred scott decision, in the class of shelby v. standing up to protect access to the ballot box, not coming up with cute six-part tests to try to sustain voter suppression laws. so this is a battle on multiple parts, and it is for the soul of this nation. >> yes. and i -- >> my mother was denied the right to vote because she was asked the color of her eyes. she said they were brown and the clerk said they were black. this is something that has affected members of my family over time. we cannot go back in this nation to where we erect and effect a blockade around the ballot box so that only some americans have easy access to vote. >> that is a stunning story you tell about your mother, but i'm sure it is part of the reason you are calling this the summer of activism. put your track shoes on and run with it, my friend. thank you so much. >> thanks, alex. appreciate it. >> yeah. >>> something is occurring in the labor department we haven't seen in some 40 years and maybe a financial lifeline for so many americans. americans. and one w

kavanaugh decision, the most recent decision, which leads me to believe that they are going to a plessie versus ferguson model that if it's just inconvenient, it's not discrimination. if it's just based on partisanship and trying to prevent the people from the other party from voting, it's not discrimination. the mere inconvenience, there's nothing wrong with it. this worries me because i feel like some states could do bubbles on a bar of soap. i worry that the courts won't be a readout for you all even if you get through the courts. >> well, the decision was a pretty astonishing one. the idea of the supreme court essentially countermanding congress and almost kind of writing their own statute, there's nothing about the bernovich decision that is grounded in the text of the voting rights act, of section 2 as it was amended in 1982. the senate report factors that have been the way of litigating these cases since then have essentially been brushed aside, according to justice alito, who suggested these are just suggestions but no doubt suggestions that he knows district courts will take qui

you had an extraordinary influx of the ku klux klan and the jim crow laws and put in the law with "plessysus ferguson" and here is another example of the white supremacy, then it does not have a organic sense of my story of my people, but it is my story of my deciding that you can't even decide to enjoy the freedom that we begrudgingly gave you and you can take the confederate flag. it is not the confederate flag. the confederate flag. the flag that we call the confederate flag is one of many battle flags of the army of northern virginia which was adopted by the ku klux flag, and went into mississippi at that period in the 1880s and 1890s and the other flags of the old confederacy after 1954. hmm, what happened in 1954. let's see, a supreme court decision that might have prompted some, you know, individual resistance? yes, exactly right. so it is notten the flag of the confederacy, but it is the flag, and it is like isis. right? it is like al qaeda. it is not even the confederate flag. it is the ku klux klan's prescription of what they thought. so mitch landrieu is the man who struggled o

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