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who was the plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson. He staged an act of civil disobedience to challenge one of Louisiana's...

Ferguson (June 10, 1838 – November 12, 1915) was an American lawyer and judge from Louisiana, most famous as the defendant in the Plessy v. Ferguson case...

American shoemaker and activist Jeanne Arnould-Plessy (1819–1897), French actress Plessey Plessy v. Ferguson, U.S. Supreme Court Case, argued by Homer This...

whites, and Creoles. It is most well known for its involvement in Plessy v. Ferguson. The Citizens' Committee was opposed to racial segregation and was...

quality. The decision partially overruled the Court's 1896 decision Plessy v. Ferguson, which had held that racial segregation laws did not violate the U...

restricted civil liberties, including the Civil Rights Cases, Plessy v. Ferguson, and Giles v. Harris. Many of Harlan's views expressed in his notable dissents...

Brown is harshly criticized for writing the majority opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson, an opinion widely regarded as one of the most ill-considered decisions...

the phrase "equal but separate". The doctrine was confirmed in the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision of 1896, which allowed state-sponsored segregation...

segregation established by the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson. The case was influential in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education four years later...

22 years before the United States Supreme Court decided Plessy v. Ferguson. Following Ward v. Flood, litigation over racial segregation in schools in...

beginning in the 1870s. Jim Crow laws were upheld in 1896 in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, in which the Supreme Court laid out its "separate but equal" legal...

judged a case. He is noted for his votes in Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. and in Plessy v. Ferguson. Shiras was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, January...

for the suit. The case was later cited by the US Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson, which established the "separate but equal" standard. The 2004 book...

Ida B. Wells "Plessy v. Ferguson (No. 210)". Legal Information Institute. Retrieved October 4, 2011. Copied content from Plessy v. Ferguson "African American...

this law culminated in the United States Supreme Court decision of Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, which upheld the constitutionality of state laws requiring...

Louisiana, and he was appointed the lead attorney in the landmark Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) case. The committee was dismayed when the United States Supreme...

did not quite strike down separate but equal facilities, upheld in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896). Instead, it provided that if there was only one school, students...

U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), so long as "separate but equal" facilities were provided,...

children American history and culture. The 1896 Supreme Court case, Plessy v. Ferguson, was a landmark case which established the legal precedent for “separate...

Louise Smith Thurgood Marshall Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), case upholding "separate but equal" accommodations Brown v. Board of Education (1954), declared...

H. Ferguson (1915–1970), American lawyer and U.S. ambassador John H. Ferguson, defendant in the landmark American judicial case Plessy v. Ferguson John...

business affairs. Fuller joined the majority in the now-reviled case of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), in which the Court articulated the doctrine of separate but...

McLaughlin v. Florida, a similar case in 1964), a standard which reflects justice John Marshall Harlan's dissent in 1896's Plessy v. Ferguson. Loving v. Virginia...

the Master Status Concept." Justice Quarterly 14.3 (1997): 407-428 "Plessy v. Ferguson". HISTORY. Retrieved 2019-11-12. John Scott; Gordon Marshall (2009)...

corporations from admitting both black and white students. Like the related Plessy v. Ferguson case, it was also marked by a strongly worded dissent by John Marshall...

the beginning of a phase in Supreme Court jurisprudence that led to Plessy v. Ferguson. Josephine Decuir née Dubuclet, who was designated a Creole, and her...

'separate but equal' doctrine which had been previously established in Plessy v. Ferguson. Brown became an educator and civil rights advocate. Linda Brown was...

supported by courts, including by the Supreme Court in its 1896 decision Plessy v. Ferguson, which upheld the doctrine of separate but equal. At the culmination...

together with Sweatt v. Painter, which was decided the same day, marked the end of the separate but equal doctrine of Plessy v. Ferguson in graduate and professional...