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 account, which has implications for present-day America, Lofgren traces the roots of this landmark case in the post-Civil War South, stressing the constitutional, legal, and intellectual premises that shaped this episode
eBook, English, 1988, ©1987
Oxford University Press, New York, 1988, ©1987
History
1 online resource (ix, [1] leaf, 269 pages)
9780195363487, 9781280523663, 9780198020929, 9786610523665, 0195363485, 1280523662, 0198020929, 6610523665
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Intro
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 Affirmed
CHAPTER NINE: Speaking to the Future
NOTES
TABLE OF CASES
INDEX
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