By Keith Medley
ISBN-10: 1455617237
ISBN-13: 9781455617234
ISBN-10: 1589801202
ISBN-13: 9781589801202
In June 1892, a thirty-year-old shoemaker named Homer Plessy obtained a firstclass railway price ticket from his local New Orleans to Covington, north of Lake Pontchartrain. The two-hour journey had hardly ever began whilst Plessy was once arrested and faraway from the teach. even though Homer Plessy was once born a loose guy of colour and loved relative equality whereas turning out to be up in Reconstruction-era New Orleans, through 1890 he may perhaps not journey within the similar carriage with white passengers. Plessy's act of civil disobedience was once designed to check the constitutionality of the Separate vehicle Act, one of many many Jim Crow legislation that threatened the freedoms received via blacks after the Civil battle. This mostly forgotten case mandated separate-but-equal therapy and confirmed segregation because the legislation of the land. it'd be fifty-eight years prior to this ruling used to be reversed through Brown v. Board of schooling. Keith Weldon Medley brings to lifestyles the avid gamers during this landmark trial, from the crusading black columnist Rodolphe Desdunes and the opposite individuals of the Comit� des Citoyens to Albion W. Tourgee, the outspoken author who represented Plessy, to John Ferguson, a reformist carpetbagger who still felt that he needed to pass judgement on Plessy guilty.
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