Twenty-Five Landmark Cases in Supreme Court History

Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 Jim Crow laws are constitutional under the doctrine of ‘Separate but Equal.’ Police arrested Homer Plessy for refusing to leave a railroad car that prohibited “colored” people. Under Louisiana law, Plessy was “colored” because he was one-eighth black. The Court ruled that the race-based “Jim Crow” laws ...

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