Separate the story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's journey from slavery to segregation
Documents the story of the infamous nineteenth-century Supreme Court ruling in favor of segregation, tracing the half-century of history that shaped the ruling and the reverberations that are still being felt today.
| Main Author: | Luxenberg, Steve (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
W. W. Norton & Company,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Taking their seats : Massachusetts, 1838-1843
- Harlan of Kentucky : 1853-1857
- Brown of New England : 1856-1857
- Tourgee of Ohio : 1858-1860
- The free people of color : New 0rleans, 1860
- "The Harlan name" : Kentucky, 1858-1862
- "A war of which no man can see the end" : Brown in Detroit, 1860-1864
- "For this I am willing to die" : Tourgee on the march, 1861-1863
- "Claim your rights" : New Orleans and Washington, 1863-1864
- Choosing sides : Harlan in Kentucky, 1865-1871
- "A taste for judicial life" : Brown in Detroit, 1866-1872
- Tourgee goes South : North Carolina, 1865-1870
- Equal but separate : New Orleans and the north, 1867-1871
- "Is not Harlan the man?" : Kentucky and Washington, 1875-1878
- "Uncongenial strifes" : Brown and Tourgee, 1875-1879
- Fool's errand : north and south, 1880-1883
- The color line sharpens : 1883-1888
- "The Negro question" : Mayville, Washington, and New Orleans, 1889-1890
- "On behalf of 7,999,999 of my race" : New Orleans, Mayville, Detroit, and Washington, 1890-1891
- Arrest : Mayville and New Orleans, 1892-1893
- "You are fighting a great battle" : Washington, Mayville, and New Orleans, 1893-1895
- "In the nature of things" : March, April, May 1896
- Epilogue.