• Wikisource has original text related to this article: Plessy v. Ferguson Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision...
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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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • the phrase "equal but separate". The doctrine was confirmed in the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision of 1896, which allowed state-sponsored segregation...
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    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...
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  • volume 461 Coit v. Green (1971) Plessy has never been explicitly and specifically overruled, and though while many consider Brown v. Board of Education...
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  • American shoemaker and activist Jeanne Arnould-Plessy (1819–1897), French actress Plessey Plessy v. Ferguson, U.S. Supreme Court Case, argued by Homer This...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • Ida B. Wells "Plessy v. Ferguson (No. 210)". Legal Information Institute. Retrieved October 4, 2011. Copied content from Plessy v. Ferguson "African American...
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  • wrote that the ruling was the worst Supreme Court decision since Plessy v. Ferguson. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called the decision "an assault...
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    later Plessy v. Ferguson (1896). The establishment of the new school marked the continued segregation in the education system in California. Tape v. Hurley...
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  • the Master Status Concept." Justice Quarterly 14.3 (1997): 407-428 "Plessy v. Ferguson". HISTORY. Retrieved 2019-11-12. John Scott; Gordon Marshall (2009)...
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    discrimination was upheld by the Supreme Court in its 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, which established the doctrine of "separate but equal". The movement...
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  • era, Justice John Marshall Harlan was the lone dissenting vote in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which declared racial segregation constitutional and created...
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    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...
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  • same day as the Court upheld racial segregation laws in its infamous Plessy v. Ferguson decision. The Geary Act of 1892, an extension of the Chinese Exclusion...
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    conservative voting with the majority in Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. and in Plessy v. Ferguson. Shiras was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, January...
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  • unconstitutional" and have become exemplars of faulty legal reasoning. Plessy v. Ferguson is one such example, and Korematsu has joined this group—as Feldman...
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    p. 100. ISBN 9780306807589. Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896). Abrams, Eve (February 12, 2009). "Plessy/Ferguson plaque dedicated". WWNO (University...
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  • children American history and culture. The 1896 Supreme Court case, Plessy v. Ferguson, was a landmark case which established the legal precedent for “separate...
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  • 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...
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    Brook, Thomas (1997). Plessy v. Ferguson: A Brief History with Documents. Boston: Bedford Books. Chin, Gabriel J. (1996). "The Plessy Myth: Justice Harlan...
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  • 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...
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    one's property and business affairs. Fuller joined the majority in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), in which the Court articulated the doctrine of separate but...
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  • 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...
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