Welcome to the Wayne G. Basler Library at Northeast State Community College
Welcome to the Wayne G. Basler Library at Northeast State Community College
Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy V. Ferguson by 
Color Blind Justice: Albion Tourgée and the Quest for Racial Equality From the Civil War to Plessy V. Ferguson by 
The Plessy Case: A Legal-Historical Interpretation by
In 1896 the U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson upheld "equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races" on all passenger railways within the state of Louisiana. In this account with implications for present-day America, Lofgren traces the roots of this landmark casein the post-Civil War South and pinpoints its moorings in the era's constitutional, legal, and intellectual doctrines. After reviewing de facto racial separation and the shift by southern states to legislated transportation segregation, he shows that the Fourteenth Amendment became a ready vehiclefor legitimating classification by race. At the same time, scientists and social scientists were proclaiming black racial inferiority and lower courts were embracing separate-but-equal in ordinary law suits. Within this context, a group of New Orleans blacks launched a judicial challenge toLouisiana's 1890 Separate Car Law and carried the case to the Supreme Court, where the resulting opinions by Justices Henry Billings Brown and John Marshall Harlan pitted legal doctrines and "expert" opinion about race against the idea of a color-blind Constitution. Throughout his account, Lofgrenprobes the intellectual premises that shaped this important episode in the history of law and race in America--an episode that still raises troubling questions about racial classification and citizenship--revealing its dynamics and place in the continuum of legal change.
Presidential PayolaPresidential Payola : The True Stories of Monetary Scandals in the Oval Office That Robbed Taxpayers to Grease Palms, Stuff Pockets, and Pay for Undue Influence From Teapot Dome to Halliburton by 
Presidential Misconduct: From George Washington to Today by 
A Companion to the Reconstruction Presidents, 1865 - 1881 by 
Wilmington's Lie: the murderous coup of 1898 and the rise of white supremacy by 
