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Together : an inspiring response to the "separate-but-equal" Supreme Court decision that divided America
- Title
- Together : an inspiring response to the "separate-but-equal" Supreme Court decision that divided America / Amy Nathan.
- Author
- Nathan, Amy
- Publication
- Philadelphia : Paul Dry Books, 2021.
- ©2021
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Details
- Subject
- Plessy, Homer Adolph
- Ferguson, John H. (Judge)
- United States. Supreme Court
- African Americans > History
- Racial justice > United States > History
- Segregation in transportation > Law and legislation > Louisiana > History
- Segregation > Law and legislation > United States > History
- United States > Race relations > History
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Ruled out -- Keith Plessy's long-ago relative -- When a Plessy first met a Ferguson -- Forever linked in history -- Courtroom showdown -- The rise and fall of "separate-but-equal" -- Homer Plessy-- vindicated -- Digging into family roots -- It's Plessy and Ferguson now -- Coming together -- Inspiring others -- Afterword: Others coming together -- Time line -- About the Plessy and Ferguson Foundation -- Family trees -- Historical marker how-to guide -- HIstorical markers.
- Call Number
- Sc E 21-68
- ISBN
- 9781589881488
- 1589881486
- LCCN
- 2020945929
- OCLC
- 1226413599
- Author
- Nathan, Amy, author.
- Title
- Together : an inspiring response to the "separate-but-equal" Supreme Court decision that divided America / Amy Nathan.
- Publisher
- Philadelphia : Paul Dry Books, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Edition
- First Paul Dry Books edition.
- Description
- 213 pages : illustrations, portraits, genealogical tables ; 23 cm
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Summary
- 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. In Together, Amy Nathan 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 in New Orleans and throughout the U.S. She tells the inspiring tale of how Keith and Phoebe came together to change the ending of the story that links their families in history. It's "a flip on the script," said Keith.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 21-68