Plessy v. Ferguson
No
he was a judge for the supreme court in separate but equal.
In the pivotal case of Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racially separate facilities, if equal, did not violate the Constitution. Segregation, the Court said, was not discrimination.
1954
The supreme court in plessy v fergussion based on a theory that separate can be equal but in reality it's not
Separate but equal
Brown vs. The Board of Education ruled that separate but equal was unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court decided that the state governments could legally separate people of different races as long as the separate facilities were equal.
It upheld the "separate but equal" doctrine.
The social system that provided separate facilities for the minorities was called 'separate, but equal.' The Supreme Court eventually found that they were not equal.
established separate-but-equal doctrine upholding segregation -scrfc369