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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 | |