{"product_id":"together-2nd-edition-9781589881761","title":"Together, 2nd Edition","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe inspiring story of how \u003c\/span\u003eKeith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson, descendants of key figures in the infamous Supreme Court case \u003ci\u003ePlessy v. Ferguson, \u003c\/i\u003ehave\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ecome together to fight for racial equality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKeith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson were both born in New Orleans in 1957.\nSixty-five years earlier, in 1892, a member of each of their families met in a\nLouisiana courtroom when Judge John Howard Ferguson found that Homer Plessy could be charged with\nbreaking the law by sitting in a train car\nfor white passengers. The case of \u003ci\u003ePlessy v. Ferguson \u003c\/i\u003ewent all\nthe way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that “separate-but-equal” was\nconstitutional, sparking decades of unjust laws and discriminatory attitudes.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTogether\u003c\/i\u003e, Amy Nathan threads the personal stories of Keith and Phoebe into the larger history of the \u003ci\u003ePlessy v. Ferguson\u003c\/i\u003e case, race relations, and civil rights movements in New Orleans and throughout the U.S. This second edition includes a new epilogue describing a triumph that occurred a year after the first edition was published. In 2022, the Plessy and Ferguson Foundation, which was created by Keith and Phoebe in 2009 to change the legacy of the case that links their families, worked with a legal team and won a posthumous pardon for Homer Plessy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncludes black and white photos throughout.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong style='margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: \"Lucida Grande\", \"Lucida Sans Unicode\", \"Lucida Sans\", Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);'\u003e\"\u003cem style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003eTogether\u003c\/em\u003e has a second edition that adds a new coda to Homer Plessy's legal saga. Nearly 125 years to the day when [Homer] Plessy pled guilty in January 1897 and paid a $25 fine for violating the state's Separate Car Act, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards finally pardoned him for his act of civil disobedience. The book's author, Amy Nathan, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/access-to-justice\/articles\/1589416\/homer-plessy-s-anti-segregation-legal-fight-gets-new-coda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(207, 23, 23);\"\u003erecently spoke to Law360\u003c\/a\u003e about Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson's shared history, their petition for Homer Plessy's pardon, and how they replaced the 'versus' of \u003cem style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003ePlessy v. Ferguson\u003c\/em\u003e with 'and' to form the Plessy and Ferguson Foundation in 2009 to help educate people about the case and the legacy of segregation.\"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003e—\u003cem style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003eLaw360\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amy Nathan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48286805360891,"sku":"9781589881761","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781589881761_f52346ea-7156-420c-ae42-a4abb71d2f0f.jpg?v=1772485119","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/together-2nd-edition-9781589881761","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}