Plessy v. Ferguson - Wikipedia
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 African-Americans [2] were equal in quality to those of white people, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal".
Plessy v. Ferguson | Summary, Ruling, Background, & Impact
2024年12月17日 · 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, 163 U.S. 537 (1896) - Justia US Supreme Court …
Plessy v. Ferguson: 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.
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) - LII / Legal Information Institute
Plessy v. Ferguson 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). Overview:
Plessy v. Ferguson: Separate But Equal Doctrine | HISTORY
2009年10月29日 · 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 1892...
Plessy v. Ferguson | Oyez
At trial, Plessy’s lawyers argued that the Separate Car Act violated the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments. The judge found that Louisiana could enforce this law insofar as it affected railroads within its boundaries.
Plessy v. Ferguson - Landmark Cases of the US Supreme Court
After losing twice in the lower courts, Plessy took his case to the U.S. Supreme Court, which upheld the previous decisions that racial segregation is constitutional under the "separate but equal" doctrine. An Oklahoma City streetcar terminal's "colored" drinking fountain, 1939.
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) - The National Constitution Center
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.
Plessy v. Ferguson - Case Summary and Case Brief - Legal …
2017年3月11日 · Case Summary of Plessy v. Ferguson: Plessy, a Louisiana citizen of African American descent, was asked to move from the Caucasian railway car. He refused. The Committee of Citizen’s challenged the constitutionality of the law on behalf of Plessy, claiming it violated the equal protection law under the 14th Amendment.
Plessy v. Ferguson | 1896 Supreme Court Decision on Jim Crow …
2019年5月3日 · The 1896 landmark Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson established that the policy of “separate but equal” was legal and states could pass laws requiring segregation of the races.