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African Americans Civil rights Brown, Henry Billings 1836-1913 Harlan, John Marshall 1833-1911 History Louisiana Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896) Race discrimination Law and legislation Segregation in transportation Law and legislation Tourgée, Albion W 1838-1905 United StatesFilter By Subjects
African Americans Civil rights Brown, Henry Billings 1836-1913 Harlan, John Marshall 1833-1911 History Louisiana Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896) Race discrimination Law and legislation Segregation in transportation Law and legislation Tourgée, Albion W 1838-1905 United StatesFoner, Eric
Summary: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar, a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time. The Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three constitutional amendments to establish that ideal as American law. The...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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Summary: 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019