I knew, of course, about Plessy v. Ferguson, the infamous 1896 Supreme Court decision that legalized the doctrine of “separate but equal” which proved to be the foundation of insidious Jim ...

Ferguson, and an explanation of who Plessy and Ferguson were in the famous separate but equal case. ... 1896, Justice Henry Billings Brown explained that, as a technical matter, ...

Plessy’s legal team challenged the conviction and the case ended up in the Supreme Court in May 1896. Its defendant was John Howard Ferguson , the judge who had convicted Plessy. You May Also Like ...

In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) the Court infamously ruled it was within constitutional boundaries for the state of Louisiana to enforce racial segregation in public facilities.

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards officially issued a posthumous pardon for the man behind the Supreme Court's 1896 ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson. The pardon for Homer Plessy arrived nearly 97 ...

Plessy’s case made it all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1896, when justices ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson that the Louisiana law was constitutional because the law stipulated equal ...

Descendants of Plessy v. Ferguson create unlikely friendship 07:03. A Louisiana board on Friday voted to pardon Homer Plessy, the namesake of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1896 "separate but equal ...

The final decision on a pardon for Homer Plessy, a Black man who refused to leave a Whites-only train car in 1892, now rests with the governor of Louisiana.

The 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision led to widespread segregation through the establishment of Southern laws and social customs known as “Jim Crow.” ...

Plessy wasn’t deprived of equal accommodations, Ferguson wrote, but “simply deprived of the liberty of doing as he pleased.” The Louisiana Supreme Court agreed, and so eventually did the U.S ...

Instead, the protest led to the 1896 ruling known as Plessy v. Ferguson, which solidified whites-only spaces in public accommodations such as transportation, hotels and schools for decades.

Plessy, a 30-year-old shoemaker, lacked the business, political and educational accomplishments of most of the other members, Keith Weldon Medley wrote in the book "We As Freemen: Plessy v. Ferguson." ...