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Plessy v. Ferguson was a 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld racial segregation laws under the "separate but equal" doctrine. The case involved Homer Plessy, a mixed-race man who challenged a Louisiana law requiring separate railroad cars for whites and blacks.
21 Οκτ 2024 · Learn about the 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld racial segregation laws under the "separate but equal" doctrine. Find out the background, participants, decision, and legacy of Plessy v. Ferguson.
29 Οκτ 2009 · Learn about the 1896 case that established the "separate but equal" doctrine for racial segregation in the U.S. Read about the background, context, ruling, dissent and significance of Plessy v. Ferguson.
Learn about the 1896 case that upheld state-imposed racial segregation in Louisiana railways. Find out the facts, arguments, opinions, and outcome of Plessy v. Ferguson, and how it influenced later civil rights laws.
In 1896, the Supreme Court ruled that a Louisiana law requiring racial segregation on railroads was not unconstitutional. The decision, based on the Fourteenth Amendment, was overturned by Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.
A Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation in public facilities. The Court ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment did not prohibit social inequality, but only political inequality, and that the law was not based on black inferiority.
Learn about the landmark case that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation in public facilities, overruled by Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. Read the majority and dissenting opinions, and the summary of the case facts and outcome.
