The Supreme Court during the Plessy v. Ferguson Case. User-Created Clip by tgrane March 20, 2018 2018-03-19T21:33:00-04:00 https: ...

Description. In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) the Court infamously ruled it was within constitutional boundaries for the state of Louisiana to enforce racial segregation in public facilities.

Chief Justice John Roberts, a Republican appointee to the Court, quoted the same words in a 2003 majority opinion, Parents Involved in Community Schools v.Seattle School District No. 1, which held ...

The Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson that state racial segregation laws didn’t violate the Constitution as long as the facilities for the races were of equal quality.

Phoebe Ferguson, a great-great-granddaughter of Judge John Howard Ferguson and Keith Plessy, a first cousin three times removed of Homer Plessy, speak in front of the Plessy v.

Homer Plessy, a Creole shoemaker from New Orleans and the plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson, was pardoned by Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards on Wednesday, 130 years ...

They represent the opposing principals in one of the Supreme Court's landmark decisions, Plessy v. Ferguson, which upheld the constitutionality of Jim Crow laws mandating segregation under the ...

Louisiana board pardons Homer Plessy ahead of the 125th anniversary of Plessy v. Ferguson 04:34. The Supreme Court's decision upholding the doctrine of separate but equal remained in place until ...

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards on Wednesday posthumously pardoned civil rights leader Mr. Homer A. Plessy who challenged Louisiana's segregation laws in the landmark civil rights Supreme Court ...

Ferguson ruling in 1896, the Supreme Court declared it was legal for a state to force segregation on the basis of race. A year later, Plessy pleaded guilty to violating the Separate Car Act.

Descendants of Plessy v. Ferguson create unlikely friendship 07:03. A Louisiana board on Friday voted to pardon Homer Plessy, the namesake of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1896 "separate but equal ...

The Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson that state racial segregation laws didn't violate the Constitution as long as the facilities for the races were of equal quality.