law and legislation

This book explores the hard-fought legal battles to give people of color an equal education to whites. This title also looks at issues students of color face today, such as harsher school discipline compared with white students and a step back in school integration.

"In 1857, a slave sued for his freedom and lost ... The author also looks at the aftermath of the case, including the Civil War, and the great changes in the United States on the issue of slavery. Also included are questions to consider, primary source documents, and a chronology of the case"--Amazon.com.

Provides an analysis of the Plessy v. Ferguson case in which the Supreme Court ruled in favor of separate but equal accommodations on intrastate railroads, setting the stage for a system of legal segregation in the U.S., and includes a collection of primary source documents related to the case.