Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that established the legal doctrine of “separate but equal”. It was a ruling that enabled many states to enact racial segregation laws for ...

They chose Homer Plessy to defy the segregationists ... backed by the imprimatur of the U.S. Supreme Court. That would not change until 1954, when the Court decided in Brown v.

Though the 1875 Civil Rights Act had stated that all races were entitled to equal treatment in public accommodations, an 1883 Supreme Court ... After the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision ...

The Louisiana Supreme Court upheld the conviction, and Plessy appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The nation's highest court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 that the state’s racial segregation ...

The discourse around a colorblind U.S. has been going on since 1896, when the term "colorblind" was first used in the ...

That incredible outcome is essentially what happened with the Supreme Court decision ... for such reversals. Brown v. Board of Education famously overruled Plessy v. Ferguson’s rule of separate ...

In the court case known as Plessy v Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of people based on race was legal, providing facilities were 'separate but equal'. These segregation ...

The ruling in Plessy v Ferguson was the start of the ‘separate ... For the first time, the Supreme Court was seen to be supporting black people. After much resistance, schools in the South ...