search for books and compare prices
Tables of Contents for Plessy V. Ferguson
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
v
 
Preface
vii
 
PART ONE Introduction: The Legal Background
1
38
The Civil War Amendments
11
7
The Slaughter-House Cases and Their Implications
18
5
The Civil Rights Cases and Their Consequences
23
6
Plessy's Argument before the Court
29
2
The Majority Decision
31
3
Harlan's Dissent
34
5
PART TWO The Documents
39
130
Plessy v. Ferguson, May 18, 1896
41
20
Selected Views on the ``Race Question'' at the Time of Plessy
61
66
The Race Question in the United States, September 1890
62
14
John Tyler Morgan
Race Amalgamation, August 1896
76
25
Frederick L. Hoffman
Capacity of the Negro---His Position in the North. The Color Line in New England, 1890
101
18
Henry M. Field
Atlanta Exposition Address, September 18, 1895
119
6
Booker T. Washington
Central Law Review, January 17, 1896
125
2
Responses to Plessy
127
42
The Press
127
9
Times-Picayune (New Orleans), Equality, but Not Socialism, May 19, 1896
128
1
Tribune (New York), The Unfortunate Law of the Land May 19, 1896
128
1
Union Advertiser (Rochester, New York), State Sovereignty, May 19, 1896
129
1
Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York), A Strange Decision, May 20, 1896
129
2
Republican (Springfield, Massachusetts), May 20, 1896
131
1
Evening Journal (New York), May 20, 1896
131
1
Journal (Providence, Rhode Island), May 20, 1896
132
1
Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia), Separate Coaches, May 21, 1896
133
1
Weekly Blade (Parsons, Kansas), May 30, 1896
133
1
A.M.E. Church Review (Philadelphia), June 1896
134
1
Booker T. Washington, Who Is Permanently Hurt? June 1896
135
1
Legal Periodicals
136
3
Central Law Journal, August 14, 1896
136
1
Michigan Law Journal, 1896
137
1
American Law Review, 1896
138
1
Virginia Law Register, 1896
139
1
African American Intellectuals
139
21
Strivings of the Negro People, 1897
140
9
W.E.B. Du Bois
The Courts and the Negro, ca. 1911
149
11
Charles W. Chesnutt
Sixteen Years after the Decision
160
9
From The Fourteenth Amendment and the States, 1912
161
3
Charles Wallace Collins
Dissenting Opinions of Mr. Justice Harlan, 1912
164
5
Henry Billings Brown
PART THREE Conclusion: In the Wake of Plessy
169
27
APPENDICES
Members of the Court
179
7
Chronology of Events Related to Plessy (1849-1925)
186
4
Questions for Consideration
190
3
Selected Bibliography
193
3
Index
196