Plessy v. Ferguson : a brief history with documents / edited with an introduction by Brook Thomas.
1997
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Title
Plessy v. Ferguson : a brief history with documents / edited with an introduction by Brook Thomas.
Published
Boston : Bedford Books, [1997]
Copyright
©1997
Call Number
KF223.P56 P58 1997
ISBN
0312137435 (pbk.)
9780312137434 (pbk.)
0312162847 (hard)
9780312162849 (hard)
9780312137434 (pbk.)
0312162847 (hard)
9780312162849 (hard)
Description
xi, 205 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)35963134
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-195) and index.
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Plessy versus Ferguson
Gift
Gift of Adriana Zapata
Added Author
Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Gift of Adriana Zapata
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Pt. 1
Introduction: The Legal Background
1
The Civil War Amendments
11
The Slaughter-House Cases and Their Implications
18
The Civil Rights Cases and Their Consequences
23
Plessy's Argument before the Court
29
The Majority Decision
31
Harlan's Dissent
34
Pt. 2
The Documents
39
1Plessy v. Ferguson, May 18, 1896
41
2Selected Views on the "Race Question" at the Time of Plessy
61
The Race Question in the United States, September 1890 / John Tyler Morgan
62
Race Amalgamation, August 1896 / Frederick L. Hoffman
76
Capacity of the Negro - His Position in the North. The Color Line in New England, 1890 / Henry M. Field
101
Atlanta Exposition Address, September 18, 1895 / Booker T. Washington
119
Central Law Review, January 17, 1896
125
3Responses to Plessy
127
Times-Picayune, Equality, but Not Socialism, May 19, 1896
128
Tribune, The Unfortunate Law of the Land May 19, 1896
128
Union Advertiser, State Sovereignty, May 19, 1896
129
Democrat and Chronicle, A Strange Decision, May 20, 1896
129
Republican, May 20, 1896
131
Evening Journal, May 20, 1896
131
Journal, May 20, 1896
132
Dispatch, Separate Coaches, May 21, 1896
133
Weekly Blade, May 30, 1896
133
A.M.E. Church Review, June 1896
134
Who Is Permanently Hurt? June 1896 / Booker T. Washington
135
Central Law Journal, August 14, 1896
136
Michigan Law Journal, 1896
137
American Law Review, 1896
138
Virginia Law Register, 1896
139
Strivings of the Negro People, 1897 / W. E. B. Du Bois
140
The Courts and the Negro, ca. 1911 / Charles W. Chesnutt
149
From The Fourteenth Amendment and the States, 1912 / Charles Wallace Collins
161
Dissenting Opinions of Mr. Justice Harlan, 1912 / Henry Billings Brown
164
Pt. 3
Conclusion: In the Wake of Plessy
169
Members of the Court
179
Chronology of Events Related to Plessy (1849-1925)
186
Questions for Consideration
190
Selected Bibliography
193
Index
196