Cates, David
Plessy v. Ferguson : segregation and the separate but equal policy Plessy vs. Ferguson Plessy versus Ferguson by David Cates ; content consultant, Margalynne Armstrong. - Minneapolis, MN : ABDO Pub., c2013. - 160 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm. - Landmark Supreme Court cases .
Plessy is ejected from the train -- Slavery and citizenship -- Freedom, reconstruction, and promises betrayed -- Segregation -- Louisiana and the separate car act -- Plessy in Judge Ferguson's court -- Before the Alabama Supreme Court -- Before the Supreme Court -- The Supreme Court review -- After Plessy.
The US Supreme Court is the head of the judicial branch of the federal government. It is the highest court in the land, with thousands of cases appealed to it every year. One of those history-making cases was Plessy v. Ferguson, which decided the constitutionality of "separate but equal" policies in 1896. Readers will follow this case from beginning to end, including the social and political climates that led up to it and the effects it had after the court made its ruling. Major players and key events are discussed, including Homer Plessy and the Citizens' Committee, and their fight against Louisiana's separate train cars law. Compelling chapters and informative sidebars also introduce Dred Scott v. Stanford, the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, slavery, the Emancipation Proclamation, the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments, Reconstruction, the Freedman's Bureau, Jim Crow laws, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, the NAACP, and Brown v. Board of Education. Plessy v. Ferguson addressed segregation and racism. This landmark Supreme Court case changed the course of US history and shaped the country we live in. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
1200L
9781617834752 1617834750
2012001279
Plessy, Homer Adolph--Trials, litigation, etc.
Segregation in transportation--Law and legislation--History--Louisiana--19th century
j342.730873 Cat 23
Plessy v. Ferguson : segregation and the separate but equal policy Plessy vs. Ferguson Plessy versus Ferguson by David Cates ; content consultant, Margalynne Armstrong. - Minneapolis, MN : ABDO Pub., c2013. - 160 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm. - Landmark Supreme Court cases .
Plessy is ejected from the train -- Slavery and citizenship -- Freedom, reconstruction, and promises betrayed -- Segregation -- Louisiana and the separate car act -- Plessy in Judge Ferguson's court -- Before the Alabama Supreme Court -- Before the Supreme Court -- The Supreme Court review -- After Plessy.
The US Supreme Court is the head of the judicial branch of the federal government. It is the highest court in the land, with thousands of cases appealed to it every year. One of those history-making cases was Plessy v. Ferguson, which decided the constitutionality of "separate but equal" policies in 1896. Readers will follow this case from beginning to end, including the social and political climates that led up to it and the effects it had after the court made its ruling. Major players and key events are discussed, including Homer Plessy and the Citizens' Committee, and their fight against Louisiana's separate train cars law. Compelling chapters and informative sidebars also introduce Dred Scott v. Stanford, the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, slavery, the Emancipation Proclamation, the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments, Reconstruction, the Freedman's Bureau, Jim Crow laws, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, the NAACP, and Brown v. Board of Education. Plessy v. Ferguson addressed segregation and racism. This landmark Supreme Court case changed the course of US history and shaped the country we live in. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
1200L
9781617834752 1617834750
2012001279
Plessy, Homer Adolph--Trials, litigation, etc.
Segregation in transportation--Law and legislation--History--Louisiana--19th century
j342.730873 Cat 23