They chose Homer Plessy to defy the segregationists ... backed by the imprimatur of the U.S. Supreme Court. That would not change until 1954, when the Court decided in Brown v.

Though the 1875 Civil Rights Act had stated that all races were entitled to equal treatment in public accommodations, an 1883 Supreme Court ... After the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision ...

"1954: In Hernandez v ... Supreme Court decisions, such as, the infamous Dred Scott decision (1857), which enshrined second-class citizenship for Black people prior to the American Civil War ...

The Supreme Court abandoned equal rights completely in Plessy v. Ferguson. 62 Justice Henry Billings Brown, writing for the Court, held that a state could segregate train cars.

When the Supreme Court delivered its historic Brown ... The Brown decision effectively overturned Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which declared that “separate but equal” facilities were ...

The Louisiana Supreme Court upheld the conviction, and Plessy appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The nation's highest court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 that the state’s racial segregation ...

Board of Education, a unanimous Supreme Court abandons available originalist ... the Court declines to revisit its notorious 1896 ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson and instead limits itself to the ...