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Plessy v. Ferguson May 18, 1896 For over 50 years, the states of the American South enforced a policy of separate accommodations for blacks and whites on buses and trains, and in hotels, theaters, and schools. On May 18, 1896, the Supreme Court ruled in the Plessy v.

Plessy v. Ferguson May 18, 1896 For over 50 years, the states of the American South enforced a policy of separate accommodations for blacks and whites on buses and trains, and in hotels, theaters, and schools. On May 18, 1896, the Supreme Court ruled in the Plessy v.

Plessy v. Ferguson May 18, 1896 For over 50 years, the states of the American South enforced a policy of separate accommodations for blacks and whites on buses and trains, and in hotels, theaters, and schools. On May 18, 1896, the Supreme Court ruled in the Plessy v.

The Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson ushered in an era of legally sanctioned racial segregation. Above, an African American man stands below a sign for a segregated waiting room at a train station. Reproduction courtesy of the Library of Congress Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) In Plessy v.

The Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson ushered in an era of legally sanctioned racial segregation. Above, an African American man stands below a sign for a segregated waiting room at a train station. Reproduction courtesy of the Library of Congress Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) In Plessy v.

The Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson ushered in an era of legally sanctioned racial segregation. Above, an African American man stands below a sign for a segregated waiting room at a train station. Reproduction courtesy of the Library of Congress Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) In Plessy v.

On June 7, 1892, 30-year-old Homer Plessy was jailed for sitting in the "White" car of the East Louisiana Railroad. Plessy could easily pass for white but under Louisiana law, he was considered black despite his light complexion and therefore required to sit in the "Colored" car.

On June 7, 1892, 30-year-old Homer Plessy was jailed for sitting in the "White" car of the East Louisiana Railroad. Plessy could easily pass for white but under Louisiana law, he was considered black despite his light complexion and therefore required to sit in the "Colored" car.

On June 7, 1892, 30-year-old Homer Plessy was jailed for sitting in the "White" car of the East Louisiana Railroad. Plessy could easily pass for white but under Louisiana law, he was considered black despite his light complexion and therefore required to sit in the "Colored" car.

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) upheld a Louisiana law demanding segregated railway cars and established the doctrine of "separate but equal" in American constitutional law. Justice John Marshall Harlan (1833-1911) dissented, charging that "the judgment this day rendered will, in time, prove to be quite as pernicious as the decision made by this tribunal in the Dred Scott case."

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Introduction: The Significance of Brown v. The Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas The Supreme Court decision in Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas has been credited with much significance. For some, it signaled the start of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, while for others, it represented the fall of segregation.

Overturning nearly 60 years of state-sanctioned educational segregation, the unanimous Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka overruled the Court's 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, which held that government-controlled institutions could be "separate but equal," History Matters reported. The suit's named plaintiff was Linda Brown, a seven-year-old from Topeka, Kansas.

Overturning nearly 60 years of state-sanctioned educational segregation, the unanimous Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka overruled the Court's 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, which held that government-controlled institutions could be "separate but equal," History Matters reported. The suit's named plaintiff was Linda Brown, a seven-year-old from Topeka, Kansas.

Plessy v. Ferguson Drinking at "Colored" Water Cooler in Streetcar Terminal, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Russell Lee, photographer, July 1939. Negro Going in Colored Entrance of Movie House, Belzoni, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi, Marion Post Wolcott, photographer, circa October 1939.

In this milestone decision, the Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional. It signaled the end of legalized racial segregation in the schools of the United States, overruling the "separate but equal" principle set forth in the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson case.

The Civil Rights Movement is sometimes defined as a struggle against racial segregation that began in 1955 when Rosa Parks, the "seamstress with tired feet," refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Alabama. Brown v.

Following the 1883 decision, "Jim Crow" laws began cropping up all over the U.S., but primarily in the South, dominating the lives of African-Americans for decades. The Supreme Court left it up to the states to pass laws of equality or discrimination. One of the most widely discussed examples is Louisiana's "separate but equal accommodations" law.

The modern Civil Rights Movement is often marked as beginning with the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision banning school segregation or the day in 1955 when Rosa Parks refused to move from a bus seat in Montgomery, AL and ends with the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act or with the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.