The Landmark Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson from 1896 is the subject of this episode of Law With Mr. Lafayette. This is the case that established the social and legal fallacy of “separate but equal.“ Intern, it laid the legal foundation for not only Jim Crow laws, but other Racially inspired, segregationist legislation. In this episode, René Lafayette, a social studies and law teacher at Leominster High School in Leominster Massachusetts, gives an overview of Plessy v. Ferguson, and its impact on the American legal system.
