Supreme Court decisions affect educators, students and working families every day. Find out how we “graded” key decisions ...

Jim Crow laws, upheld by the Supreme Court in 1896 in Plessy v. Ferguson, made it perfectly legal to discriminate against a person based on the color of their skin. Into the 1960s, a Black or Latino ...

On May 18, 1896, the Supreme Court ruled separate-but-equal facilities constitutional on intrastate railroads. For 50 years, the Plessy v. Ferguson decision upheld the principle of racial ...

At 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 19, Luther College will host Phoebe Ferguson and Keith Plessy, descendants of the 1896 Plessy vs. Ferguson landmark decision, for a conversation with President Jenifer K.

Brown v. Board of Education was a landmark SCOTUS decision in 1954 which partially overruled its 1896 decision on Plessy v. Ferguson.

Brown v. Board of Education was a landmark SCOTUS decision in 1954 which partially overruled its 1896 decision on Plessy v. Ferguson.

Texas Senator John Cornyn says “Now do Plessy vs Ferguson/Brown vs Board of Education” Cornyn made the remark via Twitter in a share of former President Barack Obama's statement on the Roe ...

Not all landmark Supreme Court decisions are admirable. Some are frankly infamous, including Plessy v. Ferguson. In 1896, in Plessy, the court constitutionalized racial segregation in the South ...