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Separate and unequal : Homer Plessy and the Supreme Court decision that legalized racism
- Title
- Separate and unequal : Homer Plessy and the Supreme Court decision that legalized racism / Harvey Fireside ; introduction by Marc H. Morial.
- Author
- Fireside, Harvey.
- Publication
- New York : Carroll & Graf, 2004.
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- Additional Authors
- Morial, Marc H.
- Description
- xx, 396 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- When Homer A. Plessy, a New Orleans shoemaker, refused to move to the "Jim Crow" railroad car set aside for Negroes by state law, he initiated a lawsuit challenging the entire system of racial segregation. Fireside traces the roots of the Supreme Court decision that enshrined racial separation in America for the next 60 years.
- Alternative Title
- Homer Plessy and the Supreme Court decision that legalized racism
- Subjects
- Segregation in transportation > Law and legislation
- Segregation > Law and legislation
- United States
- Plessy, Homer Adolph
- Segregation in transportation > Law and legislation > Louisiana > History
- Segregation > Law and legislation > United States > History
- Trials, litigation, etc
- Race relations
- Plessy, Homer Adolph > Trials, litigation, etc
- Louisiana
- United States > Race relations > History
- History
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Trials, litigation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-365) and index.
- Contents
- Emerging from Plessy's shadow / Mark H. Morial -- Chronology of major events in the history of civil rights in America -- Preface -- Interrupted journey -- Reconstruction promises never kept -- Carpetbaggers, scalawags, and redeemers -- Free people of color in New Orleans -- Plessy v. Louisiana: Searching for precedents -- Fourteenth Amendment conspiracy -- En route to the Supreme Court -- Decision comes down -- Segregation without judicial restraints -- Walls begin to crumble -- Plessy finally meets its match -- Fifty years of integration: Half measures and halting progress -- Appendix A: Plessy v. Ferguson, Decision by Justice H.B. Brown -- Appendix B: Plessy v. Ferguson, dissent by Justice J.M. Harlan.
- Call Number
- Sc E 04-539
- ISBN
- 0786712937
- 9780786712939
- OCLC
- 54021339
- Author
- Fireside, Harvey.
- Title
- Separate and unequal : Homer Plessy and the Supreme Court decision that legalized racism / Harvey Fireside ; introduction by Marc H. Morial.
- Imprint
- New York : Carroll & Graf, 2004.
- Edition
- 1st Carroll & Graf ed.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-365) and index.
- Added Author
- Morial, Marc H.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 04-539