Separate : the story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's journey from slavery to segregation

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Separate : the story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's journey from slavery to segregation

Title remainder

the story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's journey from slavery to segregation

Statement of responsibility

Steve Luxenberg

Creator

• Luxenberg, Steve

Author

• Luxenberg, Steve

Subject

• African Americans -- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• Brown, Henry Billings, 1836-1913
• Brown, Henry Billings, 1836-1913
• HISTORY / African American
• HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
• Harlan, John Marshall, 1833-1911
• Harlan, John Marshall, 1833-1911
• History
• LAW / Legal History
• Louisiana
• Martinet, Louis A, 1849-1917
• 1800-1899
• Plessy, Homer Adolph -- Trials, litigation, etc
• Race discrimination -- Law and legislation
• Race discrimination -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• Segregation in transportation -- Law and legislation
• Segregation in transportation -- Law and legislation -- Louisiana -- History -- 19th century
• Tourgée, Albion W, 1838-1905
• Tourgée, Albion W, 1838-1905
• Trials
• United States
• Plessy, Homer Adolph
• African Americans -- Civil rights

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

A myth-shattering narrative of how a nation embraced "separation" and its pernicious consequences. Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court case synonymous with "separate but equal," created remarkably little stir when the justices announced their near-unanimous decision on May 18, 1896. Yet it is one of the most compelling and dramatic stories of the nineteenth century, whose outcome embraced and protected segregation, and whose reverberations are still felt into the twenty-first. Separate spans a striking range of characters and landscapes, bound together by the defining issue of their time and ours--race and equality. Wending its way through a half-century of American history, the narrative begins at the dawn of the railroad age, in the North, home to the nation's first separate railroad car, then moves briskly through slavery and the Civil War to Reconstruction and its aftermath, as separation took root in nearly every aspect of American life. Award-winning author Steve Luxenberg draws from letters, diaries, and archival collections to tell the story of Plessy v. Ferguson through the eyes of the people caught up in the case. Separate depicts indelible figures such as the resisters from the mixed-race community of French New Orleans, led by Louis Martinet, a lawyer and crusading newspaper editor; Homer Plessy's lawyer, Albion Tourgée, a best-selling author and the country's best-known white advocate for civil rights; Justice Henry Billings Brown, from antislavery New England, whose majority ruling endorsed separation; and Justice John Harlan, the Southerner from a slaveholding family whose singular dissent cemented his reputation as a steadfast voice for justice. Sweeping, swiftly paced, and richly detailed, Separate provides a fresh and urgently-needed exploration of our nation's most devastating divide

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

342.7308/73

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

KF223.P56

LC item number

L88 2019

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography