Homer Plessy

Americas

The Supreme Court ruled that keeping Black and white Americans in separate public places was legal, as long as the separate facilities were supposedly equal.…

• 1896 CE

  Plessy v. Ferguson: Separate but Equal

  The Supreme Court ruled that keeping Black and white Americans in separate public places was legal, as long as the separate facilities were supposedly equal. The facilities were almost never equal, and this ruling allowed racial segregation for decades.