Untold History (Video) Plessy v. Ferguson: Separate but Equal Posted: March 6, 2025 | Last updated: March 7, 2025 Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that established the ...

They chose Homer Plessy to defy the segregationists ... backed by the imprimatur of the U.S. Supreme Court. That would not change until 1954, when the Court decided in Brown v.

Black Louisianians’ yearslong battle for equal voting representation makes its third appearance at the Supreme Court next ...

Though the 1875 Civil Rights Act had stated that all races were entitled to equal treatment in public accommodations, an 1883 Supreme Court ... After the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision ...

The Louisiana Supreme Court upheld the conviction, and Plessy appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The nation's highest court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 that the state’s racial segregation ...