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Direct linkWishon, Phillip – Young Children, 2004
In this article, the author discusses racial and school segregation with the Plessy vs. Ferguson case, as well as the Brown vs. Board of Education case as an example. The Plessy case deals with Louisiana's separate car law, wherein a 30-year-old apprentice shoemaker named Homer Plessy, who was 1/8 Negro, was arrested for sitting in the Whites-only…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, School Segregation, Sanctions, Racial Segregation
