The challenge to the Louisiana law that led to the Plessy v. Fergunson decision was one of many efforts by African Americans throughtout the United States to claims rights they were supposed to have gained from the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 and seveal new amendments to the Constitution that followed the proclamation.
The challenge to the Louisiana law that led to the Plessy v. Fergunson decision was one of many efforts by African Americans throughtout the United States to claims rights they were supposed to have gained from the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 and seveal new amendments to the Constitution that followed the proclamation.
The challenge to the Louisiana law that led to the Plessy v. Fergunson decision was one of many efforts by African Americans throughtout the United States to claims rights they were supposed to have gained from the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 and seveal new amendments to the Constitution that followed the proclamation.
Presents an introduction to segregation in the United States, in simple text with illustrations, describing the social and legal implications of racial discrimination in the early twentieth century.
the true account of the voyage of the Nautilus by Zoticus de Lesseps, 1863
Anderson, Wayne
2009
Purports to be the journal of Zoticus de Lesseps, written on an ill-fated 1863 voyage accompanying Captain Nemo to explore the mysteries of the deep sea.
Presents an account of the case of Plessy v. Ferguson in which the Supreme Court upheld the Louisiana law allowing for racial segregation in public facilities; looks at the social environment of the late nineteenth-century at the time the case was brought; and discusses the aftermath of the ruling.
After hatching from an egg that fell into the sea, a creature that shares features with a fish, an insect, a bird, and a snake--but is not any of these--sets off to find its own kind and its mother.
Discusses the origins, philosophy, and most notorious attacks of the Basque separatist group ETA, including their present activities, possible plans, and counter-terrorism efforts directed against them.
Chronicles the trial in which eight White Sox players and several gamblers were charged with "fixing" the 1919 World Series, and presents numerous primary source excerpts and photos.
Examines the history of the Jim Crow laws that allowed the segregation of whites and African-Americans, discusses challenges to the laws, and looks at how things changed when the Supreme Court outlawed segregation in public education in 1954 in the case of "Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.".
