The journey to separate but equal: Madame DeCuir's quest for racial justice in the Reconstruction era

Abstract

Louisiana's gens de couleur and the DeCuir and Dubuclet families -- Madame DeCuir returns from France and hires new lawyers -- Madame DeCuir's journey and Reconstruction -- Madame DeCuir's suit against Captain Benson -- Judge Collum decides -- The Louisiana Supreme Court affirms -- Captain Benson takes his case to the US Supreme Court -- Louisiana (and the entire South) redeemed -- The US Supreme Court decides -- The completion of the law's journey to separate but equal.