PLESSY V. FERGUSON : Race and Inequality in Jim Crow America /

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"Six decades before Rosa Parks boarded her fateful bus, another traveler in the Deep South tried to strike a blow against racial discrimination--but ultimately fell short of that goal, leading to the Supreme Court's landmark 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson. Now Williamjames Hull Hoffer...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hoffer, Williamjames
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Plessy, Homer Adolph.
Plessy, Homer Adolph > Trials, litigation, etc.
Segregation in transportation > Law and legislation.
Race relations.
Legislation.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Civil Rights.
Segregation in transportation > Law and legislation > Louisiana > History.
United States.
Louisiana.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire.
Louisiane > Relations raciales > Histoire.
United States > Race relations > History.
Segregation > Law and legislation > United States > History.
Louisiana > Race relations > History.
Trials, litigation, etc.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: A Test Case
  • 1. The Crescent City
  • 2. An Odious Law
  • 3. The Long Road to the High Court
  • 4. A Segregated Court
  • 5. Plessy's World
  • Epilogue: An Enduring Legacy.

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