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 ...

The14th Amendment was intended to correct the moral wrongs of slavery. But it has been misunderstood and reinterpreted in ...

Leo Terrell was nominated to serve in the civil rights division of the DOJ. Here’s what he’s said about the DOJ and racism in America.

That night, she worried, briefly, that her name would be on a case that might be remembered along the same lines as Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 Supreme Court case that ruled it was constitutional ...

Each era brings new challenges and interpretations that shape the foundation of law and justice in the United States.

to Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which facilitated racial apartheid in the South, the Supreme Court has played an especially abysmal role in undermining democratic governance and equal justice for ...

I find it concerning that Daily Herald’s syndicated columnist Keith Raffel has many issues about the Supreme Court and ... is for the overturning of Plessy v. Ferguson? If he is to remain ...

From massive protests against racial segregation and discrimination in the 1960s to the fight against police brutality, African Americans have advocated for equality for decades. In the ...

In the court case known as Plessy v Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of people based on race was legal, providing facilities were 'separate but equal'. These 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 ...

The ruling in Plessy v Ferguson was the start of the ‘separate ... For the first time, the Supreme Court was seen to be supporting black people. After much resistance, schools in the South ...