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  2. Plessy v. Ferguson - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 February 2025. 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case on racial segregation 1896 United States Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court of the United States Argued April 13, 1896 Decided May 18, 1896 Full case name Homer A. Plessy v. John H. Ferguson Citations 163 U.S. 537 (more) 16 S. Ct. 1138; 41 L ...

  3. Homer Plessy - Wikipedia

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    Homer Adolph Plessy (born Homère Patris Plessy; 1858, 1862 or March 17, 1863 [a] – March 1, 1925) was an American shoemaker and activist who was the plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson.

  4. Separate Car Act - Wikipedia

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    For their second attempt, the group found Homer Plessy, a mostly white "octoroon", who was still considered a "negro" under Louisiana law. [10] On June 7, 1892 Plessy purchased a first-class ticket to take him from New Orleans to Covington on the East Louisiana Railroad, this time both destinations being within the state. Plessy boarded the ...

  5. Separate but equal - Wikipedia

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    The legitimacy of such laws under the Fourteenth amendment was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896). The Plessy doctrine was extended to the public schools in Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education, 175 U.S. 528 (1899). [citation needed] "We cater to white trade only".

  6. Henry Billings Brown - Wikipedia

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    Despite Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown as a judge did not invariably vote against the interests of minority litigants. For example, in Ward v. Race Horse, Brown was the sole dissenter when the Court held that tribal hunting rights granted under an 1869 treaty with the Bannock Indians must yield to a state law prohibiting them.

  7. Homer Plessy, Black man behind ‘separate but equal’ ruling ...

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    Louisiana’s governor on Wednesday posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the Black man whose arrest for refusing to leave a whites-only railroad The post Homer Plessy, Black man behind ‘separate ...

  8. List of landmark court decisions in the United States

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    Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896) Segregated facilities for blacks and whites are constitutional under the doctrine of separate but equal. As long as the separate facilities are equal in quality, then such separation is not unconstitutional. (De facto overruled by Brown v. Board of Education (1954)) Missouri ex rel. Gaines v.

  9. Constitutional colorblindness - Wikipedia

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    The concept of constitutional colorblindness can be traced back to Justice John Marshall Harlan's dissent in the Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which upheld racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine. Harlan wrote, [3]