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 each race were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal".

2024年12月17日 · 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.

At trial, Plessy’s lawyers argued that the Separate Car Act violated the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments. The judge found that Louisiana could enforce this law insofar as it affected railroads within its boundaries.

2009年10月29日 · Ferguson was a landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. The case stemmed from an 1892...

Plessy v. Ferguson: Later overruled by Brown v. Board of Education (1954), this decision embraced the now-discredited idea that “separate but equal” treatment for whites and African-Americans is permissible under the Fourteenth Amendment.

Plessy v. Ferguson is the Supreme Court case that had originally upheld the constitutionality of “separate, but equal facilities” based on race. It was subsequently since overturned by Brown v. Board of Education (1954). Overview:

After losing twice in the lower courts, Plessy took his case to the U.S. Supreme Court, which upheld the previous decisions that racial segregation is constitutional under the "separate but equal" doctrine. An Oklahoma City streetcar terminal's "colored" drinking fountain, 1939.

2017年3月11日 · Case Summary of Plessy v. Ferguson: Plessy, a Louisiana citizen of African American descent, was asked to move from the Caucasian railway car. He refused. The Committee of Citizen’s challenged the constitutionality of the law on behalf of Plessy, claiming it violated the equal protection law under the 14th Amendment.

This law was a symbol of the collapse of African American civil and political rights and the rise of Jim Crow laws throughout the South in the late 1800s. Homer Plessy—an African American—challenged the law, arguing that it violated the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.

2024年3月28日 · Homer Adolph Plessy (defendant) challenged Judge John Howard Ferguson (plaintiff) who ruled in favor of the State of Louisiana’s segregation law after being arrested for sitting in a whites-only railway carriage.