From Plessy v. Ferguson to the Uvalde school shooting, this week in history highlights major events including Mount St.

Board of Education. May 17, 1954 – The Supreme Court announces its ruling, “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal;” overturns Plessy v. Ferguson, Jim Crow laws and the ...

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Technically, under the Plessy v. Ferguson doctrine of "separate but equal", buses should have already been provided. But like many other things, they were not. In other words, this was simply ...

Ryan Ferguson, 40, was awarded $38 million in damages by a jury after an insurance company hired by the city of Columbia failed to pay out his wrongful conviction settlement, according to ABC17.

In its infamous 1896 decision upholding segregation laws, Plessy v Ferguson, the US Supreme Court brushed away claims that Plessy’s heritage entitled him to special status. Justice Henry ...

Board of Education.” Before the Brown decision was handed down in 1954, there was Plessy v. Ferguson. In 1892, Homer Plessy, a Black man, refused to give up his seat to a white man on a train in ...

Delaware philanthropist Pierre Samuel du Pont funded the campaign to rebuild the schools — an investment that came more than 20 years after the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court ruling stating that ...

The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. The decision overturns the Court’s 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, which stated “separate but equal” facilities were constitutional. Brown v. Board of ...

But starting in the 1890s, shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized “separate but equal” in Plessy v. Ferguson, the Jim Crow laws ... those words were covered up by different ...