On May 18, 1896, the Supreme Court issued a ruling that denied Plessy's challenge to the law. "The object of the Fourteenth Amendment was ... Court decided in Brown v. Board of Education that ...

In 1896, after years of trials appeals, the Supreme Court ruled that “separate but equal” was fair, and was not a violation of the Fourteenth ... After the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision ...

Just as the 14th Amendment was used in the creation of Jim Crow laws, it was used to overturn Plessy v. Ferguson because of one word: equal. Oliver Brown’s daughter had to be bused to a school ...

In her speech, Jackson states that the Framers of the 14th ... Amendment requires. But how is this elementary recognition at all at odds with the color-blind position? In his great dissent in ...

The ruling in Plessy v Ferguson was the start of the ‘separate-but-equal’ principle. This led to more segregation on transportation, in entertainment venues, in factories and at other places ...