Supreme Court decisions affect educators, students and working families every day. Find out how we “graded” key decisions ...

In Skrmetti, the Court turned to a decades-old decision once thought to be consigned to history.

Ferguson (upholding segregation) had been properly overruled but why Roe should not be. Souter contended that while societal understandings of race had shifted dramatically between Plessy and Brown, ...

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 ...

In its infamous 1896 decision upholding segregation laws, Plessy v Ferguson, the US Supreme Court brushed away claims that Plessy’s heritage entitled him to special status.

Ferguson, and decades before Plessy, the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott ruling essentially allowed slavery to be practiced in every state in the Union.

For example, the recalcitrant White culture encoded Jim Crow laws to defy the rule of the new social order. Blacks, never obsequious, used the intent of the law to fight back. Homer Plessy challenged ...

In Plessy v. Ferguson, a case from 1896 challenging a racial segregation law in Louisiana, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation was legal as long as separate but equal facilities ...

Following Plessy v. Ferguson, which will be discussed in detail in the section below, Black students were denied access to certain public schools based on laws enforcing segregation.

The court's conservatives used a case literally based on a homophobe’s fantasies to blow a huge hole in our antidiscrimination laws and revive the spirit of Plessy v. Ferguson.

At 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 19, Luther College will host Phoebe Ferguson and Keith Plessy, descendants of the 1896 Plessy vs. Ferguson landmark decision, for a conversation with President Jenifer K.