Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation By : Steve Luxenberg
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?Absorbing. . . . so many surprises, absurdities and ironies. . . . Segregation is not one story but many. Luxenberg has written his with energy, elegance and a heart aching for a world without it.? ?New York Times Book ReviewA New York Times Notable Book for 2019. An Amazon Best Book of 2019 (History). Longlisted, 2019 Cundill History PrizePlessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court case synonymous with ?separate but equal,? created remarkably little stir when the justices announced their near-unanimous decision on May 18, 1896. Yet it is one of the most compelling and dramatic stories of the nineteenth century, whose outcome embraced and protected segregation, and whose reverberations are still felt into the twenty-first.Separate spans a striking range of characters and landscapes, bound together by the defining issue of their time and ours?race and equality. Wending its way through a half-century of American history, the narrative begins at the dawn of the railroad age, in the North,
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