The Journey to Separate but Equal

In The Journey to Separate but Equal: Madame Decuir’s Quest for Racial Justice in the Reconstruction Era , Jack Beermann tells the story of how, in Hall v. Decuir , the post–Civil War US Supreme Court took its first step toward perpetuating the subjugation of the non-White population of the United States by actively preventing a Southern state from prohibiting segregation on a riverboat in the coasting trade on the Mississippi River. The Journey to Separate but Equal offers the first complete ex