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Plessy v. Ferguson : race and inequality in Jim Crow America / Williamjames Hull Hoffer.
Van Pelt Library KF223.P56 H64 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoffer, Williamjames.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plessy, Homer Adolph--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Plessy, Homer Adolph.
- Segregation in transportation--Law and legislation--Louisiana--History.
- Segregation in transportation.
- Segregation--Law and legislation.
- History.
- Race relations.
- Segregation in transportation--Law and legislation.
- Louisiana--Race relations--History.
- Louisiana.
- Segregation--Law and legislation--United States--History.
- Segregation.
- United States--Race relations--History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Trials, litigation, etc.
- Trial and arbitral proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 219 pages ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Plessy versus Ferguson
- Place of Publication:
- Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, [2012]
- Summary:
- Six decades before Rosa Parks boarded her fateful bus, another traveler in the Deep South tried to strike a blow against racial discrimination but fell short of that goal following the Supreme Court's landmark 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson. In response to the passage of the Louisiana Separate Car Act of 1890, which prescribed "equal but separate accommodations" on public transportation, the Committee of Citizens decided to challenge its constitutionality. At a pre-selected time and place, Homer Plessy, on behalf of the committee, boarded a train car set aside for whites, announced his non-white racial identity, and was immediately arrested. The legal deliberations that followed eventually led to the Court's 7-1 decision in Plessy, which upheld both the Louisiana statute and the state's police powers and helped create a Jim Crow system that would last deep into the twentieth century. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 The Crescent City 8
- 2 An Odious Law 38
- 3 The Long Road to the High Court 69
- 4 A Segregated Court 109
- 5 Plessy's World 145.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780700618460
- 0700618465
- 9780700618477
- 0700618473
- OCLC:
- 760979096
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