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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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)...

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...

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

attempted to combat the "separate but equal" provision in the Plessy v Ferguson case. Mclaurin v Oklahoma showed how the "separate but equal" provision can...

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...

efforts resulted in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson. The U.S. Supreme Court made a ruling on the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, supporting the legalization of...

1921. White is known for siding with the Supreme Court majority in Plessy v. Ferguson, which upheld the legality of state segregation. Born in Lafourche...

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...

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...

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