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Author Luxenberg, Steve, author.

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

Publication Info. New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2019]
©2019

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Edition First edition.
Description xxii, 600 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 571-579) and index.
Contents Taking their seats : Massachusetts, 1838-1843 -- Harlan of Kentucky : 1853-1857 -- Brown of New England : 1856-1857 -- Tourgee of Ohio : 1858-1860 -- The free people of color : New Orleans, 1860 -- "The Harlan name" : Kentucky, 1858-1862 -- "A war of which no man can see the end" : Brown in Detroit, 1860-1864 -- "For this I am willing to die" : Tourgee on the march, 1861-1863 -- "Claim your rights" : New Orleans and Washington, 1863-1864 -- Choosing sides : Harlan in Kentucky, 1865-1871 -- "A taste for judicial life" : Brown in Detroit, 1866-1872 -- Tourgee goes South : North Carolina, 1865-1870 -- Equal but separate : New Orleans and the north, 1867-1871 -- "Is not Harlan the man?" : Kentucky and Washington, 1875-1878 -- "Uncongenial strifes" : Brown and Tourgee, 1875-1879 -- Fool's errand : north and south, 1880-1883 -- The color line sharpens : 1883-1888 -- "The Negro question" : Mayville, Washington, and New Orleans, 1889-1890 -- "In behalf of 7,999,999 of my race" : New Orleans, Mayville, Detroit, and Washington, 1890-1891 -- Arrest : Mayville and New Orleans, 1892-1893 -- "You are fighting a great battle" : Washington, Mayville, and New Orleans, 1893-1895 -- "In the nature of things" : March, April, May 1896 -- Epilogue.
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. -- !c From publisher's description.
Subject Plessy, Homer Adolph -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Harlan, John Marshall, 1833-1911.
Tourgée, Albion W., 1838-1905.
Brown, Henry Billings, 1836-1913.
Martinet, Louis A., 1849-1917.
Brown, Henry Billings, 1836-1913. (OCoLC)fst00242441
Harlan, John Marshall, 1833-1911. (OCoLC)fst00028621
Plessy, Homer Adolph. (OCoLC)fst00186452
Tourgée, Albion W., 1838-1905. (OCoLC)fst01861674
Segregation in transportation -- Law and legislation -- Louisiana -- History -- 19th century.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Race discrimination -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
African Americans -- Civil rights. (OCoLC)fst00799575
Race discrimination -- Law and legislation. (OCoLC)fst01086474
Segregation in transportation -- Law and legislation. (OCoLC)fst01111236
Trials. (OCoLC)fst01156290
Louisiana. (OCoLC)fst01207035
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Discrimination in transportation.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
Race discrimination.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9780393239379 (hardcover)
0393239373 (hardcover)

 
    
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