Plessy V. Ferguson : A Brief History with Documents

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