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21 Οκτ 2024 · Plessy v. Ferguson, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on May 18, 1896, by a seven-to-one majority (one justice did not participate), advanced the controversial ‘separate but equal’ doctrine for assessing the constitutionality of racial segregation laws.
1 Ιουλ 2021 · In this article, the author explores the legal history that precluded and followed the case of Plessy v. Fergu-son, setting up the historical context and significance of the case. Here, powell shows the embeddedness of structural racism in the American legal system and the slow work done to untangle racism from the law.
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision ruling that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for people of color were equal in quality to those of white people, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal".
2 Ιουλ 2024 · Introduction. In this case, the Supreme Court voted 7-1 to uphold a Louisiana law requiring railroads to separate African Americans and white people into different passenger cars, despite Justice Harlan’s sole dissenting opinion that the “Constitution is color-blind.”
29 Οκτ 2009 · Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.
Plessy v. Ferguson, (1896) U.S. Supreme Court decision that established the legality of racial segregation so long as facilities were “separate but equal.” The case involved a challenge to Louisiana laws requiring separate railcars for African Americans and whites.
CASE LAW IN PLESSY v. FERGUSON 195 interstate commerce. This state law requiring that passen-gers be placed in cabins without regard to race interfered with interstate commerce and constituted regulation of that activity. Justices John Marshall Harlan and Joseph Bradley had dissented in Louisville because that case could not be distin-guished ...
