On this episode of Our American Stories, Joy Neal Kidney tells the story of her grandmother's needle incident during the Depression years; Mike Leven shares his story as past President and Chief Operating Officer of Las Vegas Sands Corp. One of the great hoteliers of all time—a legend in his business; and Homer Plessy's descendant, Keith Plessy, tells us the story of the Plessy v. Ferguson case, as well as what he and Judge Ferguson's descendant are doing about it now.

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Time Codes:

00:00 - The Needle In The Hand

10:00 - The Bigger the Bureaucracy, the Smaller the Customer

23:00 - "Separate, but Equal": The Story of Supreme Injustice (Plessy v. Ferguson)