Together, 2nd Edition

Together, 2nd Edition: An Inspiring Response to the “Separate-but-Equal” Supreme Court Decision that Divided America 224-page paperback / 6" x 9" / ISBN 9781589881761 Publication Date: June 6, 2023  The inspiring story of how Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson, descendants of key figures in the infamous Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson, have come together to fight for racially equality.Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson were both born in New Orleans in 1957. Sixty-five years earlier, in 1892, a member of each of their families met in a Louisiana courtroom when Judge John Howard Ferguson found that Homer Plessy could be charged with breaking the law by sitting in a train car for white passengers. The case of Plessy v. Ferguson went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that “separate-but-equal” was constitutional, sparking decades of unjust laws and discriminatory attitudes.In Together, Amy Nathan threads the personal stories of Keith and Phoebe into the larger history of