The Plessy case : a legal-historical interpretation / Charles A. Lofgren.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lofgren, Charles A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Segregation in transportation--Law and legislation--United States--History.

Segregation in transportation.

Segregation in education--Law and legislation--United States--History.

Segregation in education.

Segregation in transportation--Law and legislation--Louisiana--History.

Segregation in education--Law and legislation--Louisiana--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix,269p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford, [England] : Oxford University Press, 1988.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1896 the US Supreme Court upheld "equal but separate accommodations for the white and coloured races" on all passenger railways in Louisiana. This account traces the roots of that landmark case in post-Civil War America, focusing on its constitutional, legal and intellectual implications.

In 1896 the U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson upheld `equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races' on all passenger railways within the state of Louisiana. In this account, which has implications for present-day America, Lofgren traces the roots of this landmark case in the post-Civil War South, stressing the constitutional, legal, and intellectual premises that shaped this episode.

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION "The Plessy Prison

CHAPTER ONE: De Facto to De Jure: Transportation Segregation in the South from the Civil War to the 1890s

CHAPTER TWO: Plessy in Louisiana: The Test Cases

CHAPTER THREE: Plessy in Louisiana: The Constitutional Clash

CHAPTER FOUR: The Constitutional Environment: Lost Origins and Judicial Deference

CHAPTER FIVE: The Intellectual Environment: Racist Thought in the Late Nineteenth Century

CHAPTER SIX: The Transportation Law Environment: Access by Leave, Not Right

CHAPTER SEVEN: Plessy Before the United States Supreme Court

CHAPTER EIGHT: The Court Decides: Jim Crow Affirmed

CHAPTER NINE: Speaking to the Future

NOTES

TABLE OF CASES

INDEX

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Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-802092-9

1-280-52366-2

9786610523665

0-19-536348-5

OCLC:

960165158