[Online library] We As Freemen: Plessy v. Ferguson
✿ Keith Weldon Medley ✿
| #2294220 in Books | Pelican Publishing | 2003-04-30 | 2003-04-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .97 x5.58 x8.92l,1.02 | File Name: 1589801202 | 252 pages |
||9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.| A dramatic story rescued from what historians forgot|By Bonnie Britt|Long before Rosa Parks refused the disrespectful order to go to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, came Homer Plessy, the young shoemaker who knew he'd be arrested for refusing to leave the "whites only" car on the New Orleans railroad. He refused to go to the segregated car|From the Inside Flap||In 1896, Plessy v. Ferguson, Louisiana's famous Supreme Court case, established the separate-but-equal doctrine that prevailed in America until the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954. Homer Plessy's arrest in a New Orleans railwa
In June 1892, a thirty-year-old shoemaker named Homer Plessy bought a first-class railway ticket from his native New Orleans to Covington, north of Lake Pontchartrain. The two-hour trip had hardly begun when Plessy was arrested and removed from the train. Though Homer Plessy was born a free man of color and enjoyed relative equality while growing up in Reconstruction-era New Orleans, by 1890 he could no longer ride in the same carriage with white passengers. Plessy's...
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