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Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 US 537 (1896)
The case was presented to the US Supreme Court in 1896. The sitting members of the court were Chief Justice Melville Fuller and Associate Justices Stephen J. Field, John M. Harlan, Horace Gray, David J. Brewer, Henry B. Brown, George Shiras, Jr., Edward D. White, and Rufus W. Peckham. Brewer abstained and only Justice Harlan dissented in the 7-1 opinion.
The judge for whom the case is named, John H. Ferguson, was the judge in Orleans Parish (Louisiana) who first heard the Homer A. Plessy case.
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Which suprime court decision did brown v board of education of topeka overturn?
Plessy v. Ferguson
What did Brown v. Board of Education overturn?
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896),
Who is Ferguson in the case Plessy v Ferguson 1896?
Ferguson refers to John H. Ferguson, who was the judge presiding over the case Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. He was the judge in the Louisiana State Supreme Court. The case ultimately led to the Supreme Court decision that upheld racial segregation and the "separate but equal" doctrine.
Was Plessy v Ferguson a boxing match?
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 US 537 (1896)No. Plessy v. Ferguson was a US Supreme Court case that legally sanctioned racial segregation.
Which case is the excerpt most likely from?
This is from the Supreme Court case Plessy vs. Ferguson.
Which judge supported Plessy?
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 US 537 (1896)Justice John Marshall Harlan, a former slave owner!
What supreme court case upheld segregetion orseparate but equal?
That would be the Supreme Court Case Plessy vs. Furgeson
The Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education overturned its earlier decision in?
Plessy v. Ferguson.
What was a result of the Plessy v. Ferguson in the south?
As a result of Plessy v. Ferguson, black and white southerners were legally segregated.
Was Plessy v Ferguson a boy or a girl?
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 US 537 (1896)Plessy v. Ferguson was a US Supreme Court case, not a person. Homer Plessy, the petitioner and John Ferguson, the nominal respondent, were both male, but that fact is completely irrelevant to the case.
What did plessy v Ferguson?
Segregation
Who were the main people involved in plessy Vs Ferguson?
The main people involved in Plessy v. Ferguson were Homer Plessy, who was the plaintiff in the case and a man of mixed racial heritage, and Judge John H. Ferguson, who was the defendant in his capacity as a judge responsible for enforcing segregation laws in Louisiana. The lawyers who represented the parties before the Supreme Court were Albion Tourgée for Plessy and Milton J. Cunningham for Ferguson.
