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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

Here’s how Posner supports his position that non-lawyers should be appointed to the Supreme Court ... Posner argues that Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which held that racial segregation of public ...

Just beyond 2025, you'll find a series of high court elections that together have perhaps even larger ramifications than who ...

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 ...

It’s a rare time when we’re going to be rooting against Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill, whom we’re fans of, but today ...

Board of Education, a unanimous Supreme Court abandons available originalist ... the Court declines to revisit its notorious 1896 ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson and instead limits itself to the ...

She cited the "separate but equal" principle of legalized racial segregation in the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson case as a precedent that was appropriately overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in its ...