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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 20 January 2025. 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case on racial segregation 1896 United States Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court of the United States Argued April 13, 1896 Decided May 18, 1896 Full case name Homer A. Plessy v. John H. Ferguson Citations 163 U.S. 537 (more) 16 S. Ct. 1138; 41 L ...
The legitimacy of such laws under the Fourteenth amendment was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896). The Plessy doctrine was extended to the public schools in Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education, 175 U.S. 528 (1899). [citation needed] "We cater to white trade only".
Homer Adolph Plessy (born Homère Patris Plessy; 1858, 1862 or March 17, 1863 [a] – March 1, 1925) was an American shoemaker and activist who was the plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson.
He was at the center of an infamous 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision.
The judge presiding over his case, John Howard Ferguson, ruled that Louisiana had the right to regulate railroad companies while they operated within state boundaries. The Citizens' Committee took Plessy's appeal to the Supreme Court of Louisiana, where he again found an unreceptive ear, as the state Supreme Court upheld Ferguson's ruling. [8]
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 doctrine concerning facilities for African Americans. Moreover, public education had essentially been segregated since its establishment in most of the South after the Civil War in 1861–1865.
Case name Year Citation Decision Ward v. Flood: 1874 48 Cal. 36 upheld separate but equal schools in San Francisco Plessy v. Ferguson: 1896 163 U.S. 537 separate but equal for public facilities United States v. Wong Kim Ark: 1898 169 U.S. 649 (1898) A child born in the United States to parents of foreign decent is a citizen of the United States ...
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