plessy, homer adolph

"Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson were both born in New Orleans in 1957. Sixty-five years earlier, in 1892, a member of each of their families met in a Louisiana courtroom when Judge John Howard Ferguson found Homer Plessy guilty of breaking the law by sitting in a train car for white passengers. The case of Plessy v. Ferguson went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that "separate-but-equal" was constitutional, sparking decades of unjust laws and discriminatory attitudes. [The author] threads the personal stories of Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson into the larger history of the Plessy v. Ferguson case, race relations, and civil rights movements inNew Orleans and throughout the Unnited States . . . [telling] the inspiring tale of how Keith and Phoebe came together to change the ending of the story that links their families in history"--Provided by publisher.

"Documents the story of the infamous nineteenth-century Supreme Court ruling in favor of segregation, tracing the half-century of history that shaped the ruling and the reverberations that are still being felt today"--OCLC.

Students will understand the context for racial segregation policies and also the equality movements that policies have inspired through injustice.

"Following the Civil War, feelings were mixed about the freedoms that Lincoln had granted to African American citizens through his Emancipation Proclamation. A group in Louisiana decided to challenge a state law that required companies to have railway cars separated by race. They orchestrated a situation in which a white-looking black man would sit in the white only part of the train and announce he was colored. In a landmark decision that supported the racist feelings in some areas of the country following the Civil War, the effort to secure equal rights at this time failed. The book provides insight into the details of the case and also includes questions to consider, primary source documents, and a chronology"--Amazon.com.

Presents the various trials of the Plessy v. Ferguson case, the final Supreme Court decision, and the impact of the case on laws in the South that enforced racial segregation in public transportation and other areas of life.

Discusses the historical, legal, and social aspects of the 1896 Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson which upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation.

Chronicles the events surrounding the Supreme Court's ruling against Homer Plessy, a light-skinned New Orleans shoemaker of African lineage who violated Louisiana law by boarding a "Whites Only" railroad car in 1892, focusing on the impact the case had on the civil rights movement.

In 1892 African-American Homer A. Plessy is involved in an event of civil disobedience, but the United States Supreme Court approved segregation laws as part of life in the South and his case before it lost.

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.

Examines the people, events, and legal issues involved in the Supreme Court case that challenged a state's right to allow separate but equal railroad accomodations for different races.