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: 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 incident in...
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 (1896) | National Archives
2022年2月8日 · In 1896, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Plessy v. Ferguson . Justice Henry Brown of Michigan delivered the majority opinion, which sustained the constitutionality of Louisiana’s Jim Crow law.
Plessy v. Ferguson | Oyez
They asked Plessy, who was technically black under Louisiana law, to sit in a "whites only" car of a Louisiana train. The railroad cooperated because it thought the Act imposed unnecessary costs via the purchase of additional railroad cars.
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) | Wex | US Law | LII / Legal Information ...
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 (1896) - The National Constitution Center
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 Louisiana law, concluding that laws providing for “separate but equal” facilities for African Americans and white Americans were consistent with the ...
Plessy v. Ferguson | 1896 Supreme Court Decision on Jim
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.
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) - Landmark Cases of the US Supreme …
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) - Social Welfare History Project
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) was the seminal post-Reconstruction Supreme Court decision that judicially validated state sponsored segregation in public facilities by its creation and endorsement of the “separate but equal” doctrine as satisfying the Constitutional requirements provided in the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.