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 ...

On this day in 1927, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Gong Lum v. Rice, upholding Mississippi’s ...

In 1896, the top US court ruled against Plessy ... After Plessy was removed from the train, his case - Plessy v Ferguson - wound up in front of the Supreme Court. The court ruled that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rice, upholding Mississippi’s authority to enforce racially segregated public schools under the “separate but equal” doctrine established in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896). The case arose when ...