On May 18, 1896, the Supreme Court ruled separate-but-equal facilities constitutional on intrastate railroads. For 50 years, the Plessy v. Ferguson decision upheld the principle of racial ...

Brown v. Board of Education was the Supreme Court’s long-delayed answer to Plessy v. Ferguson. The justices were asked once again to overturn segregation as a violation of the 14th Amendment’s ...

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 ...

The landmark Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson upheld legal segregation in 1886. Civics 101 host Nick Capodice and All Things Considered host Julia Furukawa talk about how the case continues ...

The logic of Rehnquist’s 1993 memo would seem to be in tension with landmark Supreme Court cases, such as the Brown v. Board of Education decision that prohibited school segregation and the ...

Chief Justice John Roberts is in a position to make his constitutional Catch-22 the law of the land. Patrick Semansky/Associated Press Back in 1896 as the lone dissenter in Plessy v.

Area students got a chance Tuesday to hear interesting anecdotes about “Plessy V. Ferguson” from the descendants from the original case participants. As part of Constitution Day at The Robert H.

His leaked draft, overturning Roe v. Wade, likens itself to the heroic 1954 ruling overturning school segregation. The justice couldn’t be more wrong.

The Supreme Court in 1898, two years after Plessy v. Ferguson. Justice John Marshall Harlan, the lone dissenter in that case, is second from left in the front row. (Library of Congress) ...

Not all landmark Supreme Court decisions are admirable. Some are frankly infamous, including Plessy v. Ferguson.