Plessy was found guilty in November of violating the act, and the Citizens Committee appealed. The Supreme Court of Louisiana upheld the decision, and the case eventually moved to the U.S. Supreme ...

Plessy, a man who was one-eighth black, but classified as black by Louisiana law, refused to leave in order to trigger a case about the ... After the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, 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 ...

Local schools used to look much different before the school integration process began in the 1950’s. Dr. Patrick Brown is an assistant professor of history at WVU Tech. He told 59News that the path to ...

The case began with a rumble on a freight train ... it was used to overturn Plessy v. Ferguson because of one word: equal. Oliver Brown’s daughter had to be bused to a school far from her ...

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 ...