Albion W. Tourgée
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Albion Winegar Tourgée was an American soldier, lawyer, writer, politician, and diplomat. Wounded in the Civil War, he relocated to North Carolina afterward, where he became involved in Reconstruction
Historical marker in front of Albion Tourgée's boyhood home near Kingsville, Ohio; marker placed in May 2015.
On the left: Lt. Albion W Tourgée, 105th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in 1863
The house in Mayville, New York, where Tourgée lived from 1881 until his posting to the French consulate in 1900.
Plessy v. Ferguson
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Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537, was a landmark United States Supreme Court decision ruling that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race
Justice Henry Billings Brown, author of the majority opinion in Plessy
Justice John Marshall Harlan became known as the "Great Dissenter" for his fiery dissent in Plessy and other early civil rights cases.
An Oklahoma City streetcar terminal's "colored" drinking fountain, 1939
1904 caricature of "White" and "Jim Crow" rail cars by John T. McCutcheon