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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: The Legal Background | |
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| The Civil War Amendments | |
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| The Slaughter-House Cases and Their Implications | |
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| The Civil Rights Cases and Their Consequences | |
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| Plessy's Argument before the Court | |
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| The Majority Decision | |
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| Harlan's Dissent | |
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| The Documents | |
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| Plessy v. Ferguson, May 18, 1896 | |
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| Selected Views on the "Race Question" at the Time of Plessy | |
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| The Race Question in the United States, September 1890 | |
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| Race Amalgamation, August 1896 | |
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| Capacity of the Negro--His Position in the North. The Color Line in New England, 1890 | |
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| Atlanta Exposition Address, September 18, 1895 | |
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| Central Law Review, January 17, 1896 | |
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| Responses to Plessy | |
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| The Press | |
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| Times-Picayune (New Orleans), Equality, but Not Socialism, May 19, 1896 | |
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| Tribune (New York), The Unfortunate Law of the Land May 19, 1896 | |
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| Union Advertiser (Rochester, New York), State Sovereignty, May 19, 1896 | |
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| Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York), A Strange Decision, May 20, 1896 | |
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| Republican (Springfield, Massachusetts), May 20, 1896 | |
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| Evening Journal (New York), May 20, 1896 | |
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| Journal (Providence, Rhode Island), May 20, 1896 | |
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| Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia), Separate Coaches, May 21, 1896 | |
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| Weekly Blade (Parsons, Kansas), May 30, 1896 | |
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| A.M.E. Church Review (Philadelphia), June 1896 | |
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| Booker T. Washington, Who Is Permanently Hurt? June 1896 | |
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| Legal Periodicals | |
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| Central Law Journal, August 14, 1896 | |
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| Michigan Law Journal, 1896 | |
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| American Law Review, 1896 | |
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| Virginia Law Register, 1896 | |
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| African American Intellectuals | |
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| Strivings of the Negro People, 1897 | |
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| The Courts and the Negro, ca. 1911 | |
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| Sixteen Years after the Decision | |
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| From The Fourteenth Amendment and the States, 1912 | |
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| Dissenting Opinions of Mr. Justice Harlan,1912 | |
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| Conclusion: In the Wake of Plessy | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Members of the Court | |
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| Chronology of Events Related to Plessy (1849-1925) | |
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| Questions for Consideration | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index | |