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Ferguson. 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". [2] [3] The decision legitimized the many state laws re ...
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Oct 29, 2009 · Plessy v. 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 ...
May 11, 2024 · 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. Plessy v. Ferguson was the first major inquiry into the meaning of the ...
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In 1892, Homer Plessy – who was seven-eighths Caucasian – agreed to participate in a test to challenge the Act. He was solicited by the Comite des Citoyens (Committee of Citizens), a group of New Orleans residents who sought to repeal the Act. They asked Plessy, who was technically black under Louisiana law, to sit in a "whites only" car of ...
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. However, the Supreme Court—in a 7-1 vote—upheld the ...
Ferguson. Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896) Argued: April 13, 1896. Decided: May 18, 1896. Annotation. Primary Holding. 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.
Ferguson (1896) Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) 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).
