On May 18, 1896 ... Plessy decision ushered in an era during which black people were denied the vote and segregated in substandard accommodations, backed by the imprimatur of the U.S. Supreme Court.

During Reconstruction ... challenge segregation or the oppression of blacks in the South. After the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, segregation became even more ensconced through a battery ...

Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that established the legal doctrine of “separate but equal”. It was a ruling that enabled many states to enact racial segregation ...

The nation's highest court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 that the state’s racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for the races were of equal ...

In the court case known as Plessy v Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court ruled that ... Over 1 million African Americans joined the military during World War Two to fight for their country, despite ...

“We are writing a rule for the ages,” Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch declared this year during oral arguments ... the ...