On May 18, 1896, the Supreme Court issued a ruling that denied Plessy's challenge to the law. "The object of the Fourteenth Amendment was undoubtedly to enforce the absolute equality of the two ...

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 ...

Conversations like ours took place across the country in the shocked first days and weeks after the 2016 election. The ...

It evolved the doctrine of “separate but equal” in its verdict in Plessy v Ferguson (1896), thus legitimising racial ...

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 ...

Frequently, early voting involved a voter placing colored balls or corn kernels or beans into a box, which were then counted.

How would the case affect them? Explain to students that separate but equal doctrine was first announced in the U.S. Supreme Court case, Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896). Ask the student who ...

This election is a chance to unite. Keeping people apart has always been the oxygen that hate needs to survive.

This story also appeared in Capital B In Philadelphia, Sharahn Santana encouraged her tenth graders to reflect on what might have happened if Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 Supreme Court ruling ...

"We are near the point where our divisions are so intense that both sides are beginning to see their opponents not only as ...

Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan magnificently explained in his legendary dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896): “In the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior ...

When the Supreme Court delivered its historic Brown v. Board of Education ruling 70 years ago on May 17, the goal was to ...