Plessy, a man who was one-eighth black, but classified as black by Louisiana law, refused to leave in order to trigger a case about the ... After the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, segregation ...

Plessy was found guilty in November of violating the act, and the Citizens Committee appealed. The Supreme Court of Louisiana upheld the decision, and the case eventually moved to the U.S. Supreme ...

President Donald Trump’s campaign to end birthright citizenship for U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants faces a huge legal obstacle: the Supreme Court’s 126-year-old ruling, in a case from ...

The case began with a rumble on a freight train ... it was used to overturn Plessy v. Ferguson because of one word: equal. Oliver Brown’s daughter had to be bused to a school far from her ...

Board of Education case marked a decisive turning point ... effectively overturning the previous Plessy v. Ferguson decision and its separate but equal doctrine. The impact extended far beyond ...

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 ...

In the court case known as Plessy v Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of people based on race was legal, providing facilities were 'separate but equal'. These segregation ...

From massive protests against racial segregation and discrimination in the 1960s to the fight against police brutality, African Americans have advocated for equality for decades. In the ...

The Brown decision effectively overturned Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which declared ... and practically the only way the case ...