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Sto caricando le informazioni... Plessy v. Ferguson: A Brief History with Documents (1997)di Brook Thomas
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In 1896, The Supreme Court's Plessy v. Ferguson decision made legal a system of "separate but equal" racial segregation not overruled until 1954. Using the full text of the Court's opinion, along with a selection of responses to the ruling, Brook Thomas allows students to re-create a context of the complicated debates and conditions in which the decision took place. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Plessy v. Ferguson was a Supreme Court case decided in 1896. The issue was a Louisiana state law requiring railway companies to provide separate railroad cars for black and white citizens. The Court ruled that “separate but equal” was constitutional, notwithstanding Constitutional Amendments 13 and 14. This book provides an overview of important Court decisions just prior to Plessy (e.g. the Slaughterhouse Cases, the Civil Rights Cases), and the reactions to it by national press, legal periodicals, and influential African American writers of the day (W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, Charles W. Chesnutt). It concludes with an analysis of how the NAACP proceeded from that case to eventually, 50 years later, winning the landmark case, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas, that finally struck down the “separate but equal” doctrine. The book is concise and informative, and because the topic is unfortunately still relevant today, it is worth reading. ( )