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The Journey to Separate but Equal - Madame Decuir's Quest for Racial Justice in the Reconstruction Era (Paperback)
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The Journey to Separate but Equal - Madame Decuir's Quest for Racial Justice in the Reconstruction Era (Paperback)
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In The Journey to Separate but Equal: Madame Decuir's Quest for
Racial Justice in the Reconstruction Era, Jack Beermann tells the
story of how, in Hall v. Decuir, the post-Civil War US Supreme
Court took its first step toward perpetuating the subjugation of
the non-White population of the United States by actively
preventing a Southern state from prohibiting segregation on a
riverboat in the coasting trade on the Mississippi River. The
Journey to Separate but Equal offers the first complete exploration
of Hall v. Decuir, with an in-depth look at the case's record; the
lives of the parties, lawyers, and judges; and the case's social
context in 1870s Louisiana. The book centers around the remarkable
story of Madame Josephine Decuir and the lawsuit she pursued
because she had been illegally barred from the cabin reserved for
White women on the Governor Allen riverboat.The drama of Madame
Decuir's fight against segregation's denial of her dignity as a
human and particularly as a woman enriches our understanding of the
Reconstruction era, especially in Louisiana, including political
and legal changes that occurred during that time and the plight of
people of color who were freed from slavery but denied their
dignity and rights as American citizens. Hall v. Decuir spanned the
pivotal period of 1872-1878, during which White segregationist
Democrats "redeemed" the South from Republican control. The Supreme
Court's ruling in Hall overturned the application of an 1869
Louisiana statute prohibiting racial segregation in Madame Decuir's
case because of the status of the Mississippi River as a mode of
interstate commerce. The decision represents a crucial precedent
that established the legal groundwork for the entrenchment of Jim
Crow in the law of the United States, leading directly to the
Court's adoption of "separate but equal" in Plessy v. Ferguson.
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