On May 18, 1896, the Supreme Court issued a ruling that denied Plessy's challenge to the law ... when the Court decided in Brown v. Board of Education that "separate but equal" denied the ...

After the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, segregation became even more ensconced through a battery of Southern laws and social customs known as “Jim Crow.” Schools, theaters, restaurants ...

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-but-equal’ principle. This led to more segregation on transportation, in entertainment venues, in factories and at other places ...

Plessy v. Ferguson was argued in the United States Supreme Court in 1896, but the justices sided with the segregationists. The only dissenting vote was Justice John Marshall Harlan. The decision ...