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Bookmark or Share- Plessy v. Ferguson | 1896 Supreme Court Decision on Jim Crow LawsSupreme Court's landmark decision Plessy v. Ferguson established the “separate but equal” policy that created a legal system of racial discrimination.
- Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896) - Justia US Supreme Court CenterHomer Plessy, a free man who was seven-eighths white and one-eighth of African descent, agreed to participate in a test case to challenge a Louisiana law known as the Separate Car Act. This law required that railroads provide separate cars and other accommodations for whites and African-Americans.
- Plessy v. Ferguson: Separate But Equal Doctrine - HISTORYFerguson was a landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. The case stemmed from an 1892 incident in...
- Importance of the Plessy v. Ferguson law case | BritannicaPlessy v. Ferguson, (1896) U.S. Supreme Court decision that established the legality of racial segregation so long as facilities were “separate but equal.” The case involved a challenge to Louisiana laws requiring separate railcars for African Americans and whites.
- Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) - The National Constitution CenterThis law was a symbol of the collapse of African American civil and political rights and the rise of Jim Crow laws throughout the South in the late 1800s. Homer Plessy—an African American—challenged the law, arguing that it violated the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.
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