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 ...

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

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

Unlike Black children who had to leave their neighborhoods to seek an education, white children in Boston had the option to ...

I agree! The article is both compelling and important. The Supreme Court would do well to definitively repudiate both these pernicious legacies of the same era that gave us Plessy v. Ferguson.

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 ...

In 1896, “separate but equal” would be used in the Supreme Court Case Plessy v. Ferguson, which upheld segregation nationwide. Although the Roberts family’s case was unsuccessful ...

One researcher argues a general's 200-year-old Kentucky will, and others like it, support the case for present-day ...