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Separate and unequal
Homer Plessy and the Supreme Court decision that legalized racism
By Fireside, Harvey & Morial, Marc H.
- ISBN
- 978-0-78671-293-9
- Publisher
- New York : Carroll & Graf, 2004.
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Reviewed on February 15, 2004
Fireside (politics, Ithaca Coll.) retraces the road to and from the notorious 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, which symbolically and practically legalized racial segregation. He situates the case in a broad story aimed to correct what he exposes as multiple distortions of U.S. history and a persistent betrayal of African Americans' rights. He attributes much to a developing economic sys...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
