Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Given this train of thought, I am curious as to what his reaction is for the overturning of Plessy v. Ferguson? If he is to remain consistent with his ...

"Like Dred Scott (holding that enslaved people are not citizens entitled to judicial protections), Plessy v. Ferguson ...

After the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, segregation became even more ensconced through a battery of Southern laws and social customs known as “Jim Crow.” Schools, theaters, restaurants ...

To be clear, Brown v. Board of Education has not been overturned – thankfully. Representative McClurkin was most likely trying to articulate that Plessy v. Ferguson, the earlier case establishing the ...

Credit: Corbis The findings of Plessy v. Ferguson, in which the Supreme U.S. Court established the "separate but equal" doctrine, was not fully overturned for 58 years — until 1954, when Brown v.