HIST 390 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Homer Plessy, Nigger, Ableism
19 Jan 2018
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Legally because he is of white descent he can go on the train, but he looks black. Drop of black blood meant that you were black (one drop rule: this was an organized effort by civil rights organization, they specifically pick homer. They were trying to white-wash and americanise those they were helping: treats race as it was a fad of the time "the negroes day is over, they are out of fashion" (327. Struggle: close the door between race and the differences they are facing, at this point in time there is a fatigue of dealing with these racial issues. "negro, coloured, african-american" what do they call themselves: for the first time they didn"t want a name that was placed on them. Many african-american intellectuals stated it was too close to "nigger". When bond tried to build a saw mill, then he says that "sentiment of the class of white people who opposed me "
