The Plessy Case
A Legal-Historical Interpretation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10239792 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John W Graves (corresponding author), Charles A Lofgren |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 512 |
| Publication date | 1988-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Southern History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4642 • E-ISSN: 2325-6893 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2209025 |
| OpenAlex | W2017823392 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
In the case of Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, the Supreme Court upheld a Louisiana state law enforcing racial segregation on passenger trains. This decision remained effectively the law of the land on segregation until the 1950s. This book traces not only the development of the case and analyzes its decision, but, more importantly, puts it into the historical context of its times
Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Political science · History · Law · Law, Rights, and Freedoms · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Introduction
Chapter 2 History of legal and legislative acts concerned with special education
Slavery as an Interpretive Issue in the Reconstruction Congresses
The Line Between History and Casenote
Jim Crow Pragmatism
The Haunted House of Kinship
Harlan’s Dissent
Reconstruction, Segregation, and Miscegenation
Who Owns the Whip
Racial Proportionalism and the Origins of Employment Discrimination Policy, 1933–1950
Reframing Black Southerners’ Experiences in the Courts, 1865–1950
Social Movements and Social-Change Litigation
Law, Society, Identity, and the Making of the Jim Crow South
Legal Weapons for the Weak? Democratizing the Force of Words in an Uncivil Society
Die Grenzen der zivilgesellschaftlichen Selbstorganisation
Travelers, Strangers, and Jim Crow
When All the Women Were White, and All the Blacks Were Men
An Inevitable Drift? Oligarchy, Du Bois, and the Politics of Race between the Wars
The Post-1965 Trajectory of Race, Class, and Urban Politics in the United States Reconsidered
Beyond Tocqueville, Myrdal, and Hartz
A “Mulatto Escape Hatch” in the United States? Examining Evidence of Racial and Social Mobility During the Jim Crow Era
Plessy as “Passing
A Judicial Abandonment of Blacks? Rethinking the "State Action" Cases of the Waite Court
| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,61 |
| Citation span | 1988 - 2021 (34) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |