9780393357691-0393357694-Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation

Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation

ISBN-13: 9780393357691
ISBN-10: 0393357694
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Steve Luxenberg
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback 624 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780393357691
ISBN-10: 0393357694
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Steve Luxenberg
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback 624 pages

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Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation (ISBN-13: 9780393357691 and ISBN-10: 0393357694), written by authors Steve Luxenberg, was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2020. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Black & African Americans (United States History, State & Local, Discrimination, Constitutional Law, General, Americas History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Black & African Americans books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.51.

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A New York Times Editors' Choice
Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award
Longlisted for the Cundill History Prize

“Absorbing.… Segregation is not one story but many. Luxenberg has written his with energy, elegance and a heart aching for a world without it.” ―James Goodman, The New York Times Book Review

Separate is a myth-shattering narrative of one of the most consequential Supreme Court cases of the nineteenth century, Plessy v. Ferguson. The 1896 ruling embraced racial segregation, and its reverberations are still felt today. Drawing on letters, diaries, and archival collections, Steve Luxenberg reveals the origins of racial separation and its pernicious grip on American life. He tells the story through the lives of the people caught up in the case: Louis Martinet, who led the resisters from the mixed-race community of French New Orleans; Albion Tourgée, a best-selling author and the country’s best-known white advocate for civil rights; Justice Henry Billings Brown, from antislavery New England, whose majority ruling sanctioned separation; Justice John Harlan, the Southerner from a slaveholding family whose singular dissent cemented his reputation as a steadfast voice for justice. Sweeping, swiftly paced, and richly detailed, Separate is an urgently needed exploration of our nation’s most devastating divide.

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