NEW ORLEANS — A Louisiana board on Friday voted to pardon Homer Plessy, the namesake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1896 “separate but equal” ruling affirming state segregation laws.

Facebook X Reddit Email Save. Last week, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority resurrected “separate but equal” in public accommodations. In 1896, the Supreme Court issued one of the ...

NEW ORLEANS (CN) — It's been more than 120 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that established the “separate but equal” doctrine that began segregation in American, but Homer Plessy, the ...

‘Separate but equal’ commencements arrive at vaunted bastions of ‘diversity’ In this Wednesday, May 17, 2017, file photo, graduating students fill the Columbia University campus during a ...

About four years later, the Court deployed the “separate but equal” doctrine to work around the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal-protection clause to defend the clearly unequal train cars and ...

In 1896, the Supreme Court issued one of the most shameful decisions in U.S. history, Plessy vs. Ferguson. Plessy upheld “separate but equal” public accommodations, barring recently fre… ...