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Plessy v. Ferguson: Separate but Equal

Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that established the legal doctrine of “separate but equal”. It was a ruling that enabled many states to enact racial segregation laws for ...
Washington Examiner

Crime History: Arrest leads to landmark Plessy v. Ferguson decision

On this day, June 7, in 1892, Homer Plessy was arrested for refusing to leave his seat in a “whites-only” railroad car in New Orleans. Plessy was seven-eighths white and one-eighth black, which, by ...
New Hampshire Public Radio

Refresher Course: How Plessy v. Ferguson continues to have an impact on U.S. courts

Every other Tuesday, the team behind Civics 101 joins NHPR’s All Things Considered host Julia Furukawa to talk about how our democratic institutions actually work. The landmark Supreme Court case ...
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Illinoisan Melville Fuller led the Supreme Court behind Plessy v. Ferguson | John Dunphy

The very words evoke feelings of disgust and repugnance in Americans who are historically literate and possess a functioning conscience. In this 1896 ruling, our nation’s Supreme Court, by a 7 to 1 ...
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Right to ride : streetcar boycotts and African American citizenship in the era of Plessy v. Ferguson / Blair L.M. Kelley

New York : the Antebellum roots of segregation and dissent -- The color line and the ladies' car : segregation on southern rails before Plessy -- Our people, our problem? : Plessy and the divided New ...