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Plessy v. Ferguson - Race and Inequality in Jim Crow America (Hardcover)
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Plessy v. Ferguson - Race and Inequality in Jim Crow America (Hardcover)
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Six decades before Rosa Parks boarded her fateful bus, another
traveller 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 vividly details the origins,
litigation, opinions, and aftermath of this notorious case. In
response to the passage of the Louisiana Separate Car Act of 1890,
which prescribed "equal but separate accommodations" on public
transportation, a group called the Committee of Citizens decided to
challenge its constitutionality. At a preselected time and place,
Homer Plessy, on behalf of the committee, boarded a train car set
aside for whites, announced his non-white racial identity, and was
immediately arrested. The legal deliberations that followed
eventually led to the Court's 7-1 decision in Plessy, which upheld
both the Louisiana statute and the state's police powers. It also
helped create a Jim Crow system that would last deep into the
twentieth century, until Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 and
other cases helped overturn it. Hoffer's readable study synthesises
past work on this landmark case, while also shedding new light on
its proceedings and often-neglected historical contexts. From the
streets of New Orleans' Faubourg Treme district to the justices'
chambers at the Supreme Court, he breathes new life into the
opposing forces, dissecting their arguments to clarify one of the
most important, controversial, and socially revealing cases in
American law. He particularly focuses on Justice Henry Billings
Brown's ruling that the statute's "equal, but separate" condition
was a sufficient constitutional standard for equality, and on
Justice John Marshall Harlan's classic dissent, in which he stated,
"Our Constitution is colour-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates
classes among its citizens." Hoffer's compelling reconstruction
illuminates the controversies and impact of Plessy v. Ferguson for
a new generation of students and other interested readers. It also
pays tribute to a group of little known heroes from the Deep South
who failed to hold back the tide of racial segregation but
nevertheless laid the groundwork for a less divided America. This
book is part of the Landmark Law Cases and American Society series.
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