The honest historical truth, Richard Conville says in his new column, is that “Dissenters sometimes simply lose.” ...

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 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 ...

Board of Education, which found that “separate but equal” segregation was unconstitutional, although it had previously been allowed by Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. “I don’t think they wanna ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which overturned the “separate but equal doctrine,” in the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ...

Perhaps the most important in this series is Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896), in which the Court upheld the constitutionality of a Louisiana statute requiring separate but equal railroad carriages for ...

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 ...

A whole train of abusive court rulings paved the way to the “separate but equal” ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. It’s crucial to counter the widely-shared assumption that the Supreme ...

The landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling swept away the "separate but equal" doctrine enshrined in the Plessy v. Ferguson ruling of 1896 but did nothing to address the mechanics of bringing ...