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.

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 ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

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… ...

Separate but equal did not work in the South. And it has not worked in the North, either. The case Judge Moukawsher decided has been appealed and will be decided by the Connecticut Supreme Court.

As the only voice on the Supreme Court against Plessy v. Ferguson, Justice John Marshall Harlan did more than anyone since the Continental Army to enshrine dissent as an American tradition.