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Item Details
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PLESSY V. FERGUSON
A BRIEF HISTORY WITH DOCUMENTS |
| By: |
Brook Thomas |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£12.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0312137435 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780312137434 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
15 July, 1996 |
| Series: |
The Bedford Series in History and Culture |
| Pages: |
208 |
| Description: |
This text gives the Court's reasoning, factors that made such a decision possible, and the effects of the decision behind the the ruling of Brown v Board of Education in 1954, which overturned racial segregation in the US since 1896. It also illuminates the modern debate over affirmative action. |
| Synopsis: |
In 1896 The United States Supreme Court made a decision in the case of Plessy v Ferguson which made possible a legal system of racial segregation in the US which was not overturned until the ruling of Brown v Board of Education in 1954.;In this introduction students are given the Court's reasoning, the factors that made such a decision possible, and the effects of the decision. It illuminates also the modern debate over affirmative action. |
| Illustrations: |
bibliography |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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