Today in history.
Contributors: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Publisher: Library of Congress
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Plessy, Homer Adolph -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875-1955.; Segregation in transportation -- Law and legislation -- Louisiana -- History.; Segregation -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
Other titles: May 18
Description: On May 18, 1896, the Supreme Court ruled in Plessy versus Ferguson separate-but-equal facilities constitutional on intrastate railroads, upholding the principle of racial segregation. Presented is a narrative of the results of laws that mandated separate accommodations on buses and trains, in hotels, theaters, and schools, laws in effect until the Supreme Court overturned the Plessy decision on May 17, 1954 in Brown versus the Board of Education. Also educator and political leader Mary McLeod Bethune died on May 18, 1955; her career is traced, especially the founding of what is now Bethune-Cookman College and her service in the Franklin Roosevelt administration.
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Illustrated by digitized items from the American Memory historic collections compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Table of contents: title: Plessy v. Ferguson; title: [Mary McLeod Bethune]