Plessy was found guilty in November of violating ... Only one justice dissented, John Harlan, who contended that the decision "will not only stimulate aggressions, more or less brutal and ...

Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that established the legal doctrine of “separate but equal”. It was a ruling that enabled many states to enact racial segregation ...

Confusion about the legality of segregation continued until it was challenged by Homer Plessy. In 1892, in a planned act of civil disobedience, Plessy boarded a train in New Orleans and sat in the ...