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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. 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.

  4. Racial diversity in United States schools - Wikipedia

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    The 1896 Supreme Court case, Plessy v. Ferguson, was a landmark case which established the legal precedent for “separate but equal” facilities for people of different ethnicities. [7] The decision, which was handed down with a 7 to 1 majority vote, remained lawfully upheld until its abolishment in 1954 with Brown v. Board of Education.

  5. Racial segregation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Segregation was enforced across the U.S. for much of its history. Racial segregation follows two forms, de jure and de facto . De jure segregation mandated the separation of races by law, and was the form imposed by U.S. states in slave codes before the Civil War and by Black Codes and Jim Crow laws following the war, primarily in the Southern ...

  6. Homer Plessy - Wikipedia

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    The legal precedent set by Plessy v. Ferguson lasted into the mid-20th century, until a series of landmark Supreme Court decisions concerning segregation, beginning with Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. Plessy was born a free person of color in a family of French-speaking Louisiana Creole people.

  7. 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".

  8. Governor to pardon Plessy, of ‘separate but equal’ ruling

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    The Plessy v Ferguson case went to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ushered in a half-century of laws calling for “separate but equal” accommodations that kept Black people in segregated schools ...

  9. 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.