The Jim Crow Era: A Stain On America’s Past

Wondrium: “An African American named Homer Plessy predated Rosa Parks’ famous refusal to comply with racist transportation laws by more than 60 years. The Supreme Court upheld his conviction for sitting in a whites-only train car in Plessy v. Ferguson, leading to the Jim Crow era. Discover hard history and how “separate but equal” was far from equal.”