The Song of the Smoke | Compare and Contrast
- 1907: Racial discrimination is considered legal after the Supreme Court allows for “separate but equal” accommodations for blacks and whites in the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson case. Housing, transportation and medical facilities for black Americans are often not “equal,” but inferior.
Today: Federal laws strictly prohibit discrimination based on race.
- 1907: African-American political theory is divided between the pragmatic accommodationist theories of Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois’s view that blacks should be...
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