Plessy v. Ferguson

Separate but Equal?

By Fireside, Harvey

Publishers Summary:
Examines the people, events, and legal issues involved in the Supreme Court case that challenged a state's right to allow separate but equal railroad accomodations for different races.

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ISBN
978-0-89490-860-6
Publisher
Springfield, NJ : Enslow Publishers, c1997.


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Reviewed on October 1, 1997

Gr 8-Up When Homer Plessy, a light-skinned African-American shoemaker, refused to leave a "whites only" first-class railroad car in 1892, he began a series of legal proceedings that would affect the lives of African Americans for the next 60 years. Intricacies of his various cases before the Louisiana Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court are explained along with pertinent legal terms ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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