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The Plessy Case : a Legal-Historical Interpretation.

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 book, Lofgren traces the roots of this landmark case in the post-Civil War South an...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lofgren, Charles A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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 AffirmedCHAPTER NINE: Speaking to the Future; NOTES; TABLE OF CASES; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W.