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PLESSY DISCUSSION GUIDE

Introduction
Organizing the Discussion: Basic Format of a Study Circle; Philosophy and Background; The Role of the Participant
Reading One: From Equality to Jim Crow: Reconstruction; Judicial Setbacks
Reading Two: The Fight to Reverse Plessy: Seperate and Unequal; A Settled Question; The NAACP; Preparing the Groundwork; Just an Ordinary People; Go For Broke; Victory
Reading Three: Retreat From Equality Today?: Massive Resistance; Affirmative Action: The Beginning; Retreat from Affirmative Action; Is Racial Discrimination Still a Problem?
Reading Four: Affirmative Action: The New Racialism?: Assessing Affirmative Action; What Affirmative Action Is; The Individual Corrective Justice Argument; The Collective Corrective Justice Argument; The Diversity Argument; Constitutional Matters and Court Rulings
Suggested Discussion Questions Acknowledgements We thank the contributing authors for their thoughtful essays: Caryn Bell, Raphael Cassimere, Eric Mack, Tania Tetlow, and Tim Wise. Lance Hill and Lawrence Powell edited the study guide, and Joseph Logsdon and Plater Robinson provided vauable editing suggestions. Special appreciation is due Betty Williams for proofreading and layout. Sections on organizing and moderating study circles are revised and excerpted with permission from Can't We All Just Get Along? published by the Study Cirles Resource Center, P.O. Box 203 Pomfret, CT 06258. SPONSORED BY: Amistad Research Center at Tulane University Midlo Center at the University of New Orleans Pepsi / Seven-Up Beverage Group Southern Institute for Education & Research Tulane University Law School W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University

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PLESSY DISCUSSION GUIDE

Acknowledgements

SPONSORED BY:

Amistad Research Center at Tulane University Midlo Center at the University of New Orleans Pepsi / Seven-Up Beverage Group Southern Institute for Education & Research Tulane University Law School W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University

Amistad Research Center at Tulane University
Midlo Center at the University of New Orleans
Pepsi / Seven-Up Beverage Group
Southern Institute for Education & Research
Tulane University Law School
W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University