From Jim Crow to Civil Rights
Subtitle: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: April 5, 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 655
ISBN-13: 9780195310184
First sentence: In 1890, the Louisiana legislature, following a trend initiated in Florida a few years earlier, passed a law requiring railroads to provide "equal but separate" accommodations for black passengers.