The Plessy Case : a Legal-Historical Interpretation.

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lofgren, Charles A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Segregation in transportation > Law and legislation > United States > History.
Segregation in education > Law and legislation > United States > History.
Segregation in transportation > Law and legislation > Louisiana > History.
Segregation in education > Law and legislation > Louisiana > History.
Segregation in education > Law and legislation
Segregation in transportation > Law and legislation
Louisiana
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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 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.

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