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	Plessy v. Ferguson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ferguson, 163 U.S., was a landmark United States Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States, approving de jure racial segregation in public facilities, and ruling that states could prohibit the use of public facilities by African Americans.
		Medley, Keith Weldon, We As Freemen: Plessy v.
		Plessy built his case on an abridgment of the "privileges and immunities" of United States citizens, or denying those citizens due process or the equal protection of the law.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Plessy_v._Ferguson (871 words)

	Plessy v. Ferguson
		Homer Plessy - Activist, born 17 March 1862, The guy from the U.S. court case Plessy v.
		Albion Tourgee: remembering Plessy's lawyer on the 100th anniversary of Plessy v.
		Related content from HighBeam Research on: Plessy v.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0839368.html (363 words)

	Brown v. Board of Education : History
		Homer Plessy, a man who was one-eighth black and seven-eighths white, appeared before the Court on charges of refusing to ride in the "colored" section of a train, as required by Louisiana law.
		This segregated system was upheld by the decision of the Supreme Court in Plessy v.
		The Court ruled against Plessy and concluded that segregated facilities could exist if they were equal.
	www.indiana.edu /~libugls/brown/history.html (363 words)

	AFRO-AMERICAN ALMANAC - African-American History Resource
		Homer Plessy was born a free man in New Orleans Louisiana on March 17, 1862 to Adolphe and Rosa Debergue Plessy, a Creole family whose heritage stemmed from a racially mixed background of African and Caucasian ancestors.
		Ferguson denied this argument and ruled that Louisiana, by state law, had the power to set rules which regulated railroad business within its borders.
		Homer was apprenticed as a shoemaker, the profession of his stepfather and maternal relatives.
	www.toptags.com /aama/bio/men/hplessy.htm (363 words)

	ChristyPLESSY.doc
		Plessy occupied a seat in a passenger car designated for Caucasian passengers until the conductor and a police officer removed him from the train.
		Ferguson Supreme Court of the United States of America 163 U.S. 1896, Decided On June 7, 1892 Homer Adolph Plessy, a member of an organized group of New Orleans black and mixed race residents, challenged a Louisiana statute mandating the separation of race on railroads.
		Albion Tourgee, Plessy’s attorney, argued a motion that the segregation law violated the U.S. Constitution.
	faculty.smu.edu /dsimon/AAChange/ChristyPLESSY.doc (478 words)

	Introduction
		One settlement, Plessy v Ferguson became a landmark case in 1896.
		Students will be able to explain the reasoning of the Supreme Court in the case of Plessy v Ferguson.
		Rosa Parks and Homer Plessy experienced similar circumstances when they were asked to give up their seats on public transportation.
	www.maxwell.syr.edu /plegal/products/Parks.html (954 words)

	Ferguson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It may also refer to the United States Supreme Court Case, Plessy v.
		Sarah Ferguson - the Duchess of York, aka "Fergie"
		Ferguson Research Ltd. Racing car constructor and 4WD transmission systems supplier.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ferguson (155 words)

	Homer Plessy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Homer Adolphe Plessy (March 17, 1863– March 1, 1925) was an American octoroon (because of an African-American great-grandmother), famous as the plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court decision in Plessy v.
		Plessy's case was heard before Judge John Ferguson one month after his arrest.
		This petition was accepted by the United States Supreme Court and four years later, in April 1896, arguments for Plessy v.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Homer_Plessy (810 words)

	Ferguson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It may also refer to the United States Supreme Court Case, Plessy v.
		Sarah Ferguson - the Duchess of York, aka "Fergie"
		Ferguson Research Ltd. Racing car constructor and 4WD transmission systems supplier.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ferguson (155 words)

	John Ferguson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Ferguson was a Louisiana judge, and defendant in the famous 1896 Plessy v.
		John Ferguson was the name shared by two 19th century Canadian Conservative politicians (one from New Brunswick and one from Ontario) who served in the Canadian Senate.
		John Ferguson was the settler of the city of North Bay, Ontario, Canada.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Ferguson (169 words)

	John Ferguson -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		John Ferguson (judge) was a (A state in southern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War) Louisiana (A public official authorized to decide questions bought before a court of justice) judge, and defendant in the famous 1896 (additional info and facts about Plessy v.
		John Ferguson (mayor) was a mayor of (The largest city in New York State and in the United States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural center) New York City (1815).
		Ferguson (The highest federal court in the United States; has final appellate jurisdiction and has jurisdiction over all other courts in the nation) United States Supreme Court case which sanctioned official racial segregation.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/john_ferguson.htm (268 words)

	Plessy v. Ferguson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Once he had boarded the train, Plessy informed the train conductor of his actual racial lineage, and after Plessy had taken a seat in the whites section he was asked to vacate it and sit instead in the "blacks only" section.
		Plessy built his case on an abridgment of the "privileges and immunities" of United States citizens, or denying those citizens due process or the equal protection of the law.
		Plessy legitimized the move towards segregation practices begun earlier in the South.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Plessy_v._Ferguson (871 words)

	Plessy v. Ferguson: 1892
		Plessy was a mix of seven-eighths white and one-eighths black.
		Plessy went to court and argued that the Separate Car Act violated the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution.
		Plessy decided to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court of Louisiana, but that court upheld Ferguson's opinion.
	www.thenagain.info /WebChron/USA/PlessyFerguson.html (408 words)

	Can You Believe It!?! Separate But Equal, Plessy V. Ferguson
		Homer's suit was to prevent Judge Ferguson (the trial judge in New Orleans where Plessy was found guilty in the first place) from carrying out Homer's sentence - a $25 fine or 20 days in jail.
		Ferguson, Judgment, Decided May 18, 1886; Records of the Supreme Court of the United States; Record Group 267; Plessy v.
		His conviction was upheld by the Louisiana Supreme Court, so Plessy and his advocates appealed to the United States Supreme Court.
	www.lawbuzz.com /can_you/plessy/plessy.htm (408 words)

	Ferguson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ferguson-Brown - a tractor to Fergusons designs produced by the David Brown company
		It may also refer to the United States Supreme Court Case, Plessy v.
		Ferguson Research Ltd. Racing car constructor and 4WD transmission systems supplier.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ferguson (163 words)

	Plessy Park - The New Orleans Civil Rights Memorial
		Plessy Park and the Memorial are community development projects of Crescent City Peace Alliance and students of Frederick A. Douglass High School.
		The New Orleans Civil Rights Memorial, known throughout the community as "Plessy Park", is located at the intersection of Press and Royal Streets where Homer A. Plessy was arrested for refusing to move to an East Louisiana railroad segregated passenger car on June 7, 1892.
		In October, 1892, Judge John Ferguson of Orleans Parish Criminal Court ruled that Plessy had broken the Separate Car Law and a trial was postponed until Plessy's lawyers had explored all of the constitutional issues brought forward by the case.
	www.plessypark.com (339 words)

	WE AS FREEMEN: PLESSY V. FERGUSON
		Plessy, the son of politically active and free people of color, was born in New Orleans in 1863.
		While most scholars are familiar with the fact that there was some coordination involved between Plessy and the East Louisiana Railroad to challenge the segregationist legislation, the long term planning of the Comité des Citoyens in this effort was quite remarkable.
		Plessy was not the first challenge, but rather the second in a carefully orchestrated sequence of attacks, on the law.
	www.bsos.umd.edu /gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/Medley1003.htm (876 words)

	Plessy v. Ferguson
		Homer Plessy, a native of south Louisiana who could "pass" as white, agreed to be the test case.
		Tourgée argued that Plessy was denied his equal protection rights under the Fourteenth Amendment and violated the Thirteenth Amendment by perpetuating the essential features of slavery.
		The arrest of Homer Plessy (1862-1925) on June 7, 1892, was part of a planned challenge to the 1890 Louisiana Separate Car Act by the Citizens' Committee to Test the Constitutionality of the Separate Car Law, a small group of black professionals in New Orleans.
	www.bgsu.edu /departments/acs/1890s/plessy/plessy.html (521 words)

	Untitled Document
		The Plessy decision set the precedent that "separate" facilities for blacks and whites were constitutional as long as they were "equal." The "separate but equal" doctrine was quickly extended to cover many areas of public life, such as restaurants, theaters, restrooms, and public schools.
		Plessy was only one-eighths black and seven-eighths white, but under Louisiana law, he was considered black and therefore required to sit in the "Colored" car.
		Plessy went to court and argued, in Homer Adolph Plessy v.
	www.iit.edu /~belcbil/ipro/midciv142.html (489 words)

	Plessy vs. Ferguson
		On June 7th, 1892 Homer Plessy, a man of seven-eighth Caucasian and one-eighth African blood, paid and engaged for a first class passage on East Louisiana Railway from the New Orleans to Covington.
		Plessy being a passenger between two stations within the state of Louisiana, was assigned by officers of the company to the coach used for the race which he belonged, but he insisted on going into by the race he belonged to.
		Plessy declined and refused to admit that he was an any proportion a colored man.
	www.kawvalley.k12.ks.us /brown_v_board/plessy_v_ferguson.htm (450 words)

	Ferguson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It may also refer to the United States Supreme Court Case, Plessy v.
		Ferguson Research Ltd. Racing car constructor and 4WD transmission systems supplier.
		Sarah Ferguson - the Duchess of York, aka "Fergie"
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ferguson (146 words)

	Samuel David Ferguson -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Plessy vs. Ferguson and Brown vs. The Board of Education were two of the Supreme Court's historic decisions on civil rights.
		As prime minister of New Zealand from 1912 until his death in 1925, William Ferguson Massey served in the Imperial War Cabinet during World War I and signed the Treaty of Versailles, making his country a founding member of the League of Nations.
		As a young boy, Ferguson moved with his family in 1848 to Liberia.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9399766 (681 words)

	Plessy v Ferguson
		Plessy made sure that the train conductor knew that he was a man of mixed race.
		Plessy’s challenge of the railroad car law rose all the way to the Supreme Court.
		Though he appeared to be white, Plessy’s ancestry made him "colored." Plessy would test a Louisiana Jim Crow Law that kept "colored" people out of "white" train cars.
	members.cox.net /quarter_4/Plessy_Ferguson.htm (387 words)

	Plessy vs. Ferguson
		The case of Plessy vs. Ferguson was one of a combination of rulings passed by the U.S. and state Supreme Courts after Reconstruction.
		Apparently, this was not an issue for the United States Supreme Court when it decided on the case of Plessy vs. Ferguson in 1896.
		Homer Plessy and the groups supporting him took their case to the local circuit court, judged by John Howard Ferguson, the Louisiana Supreme Court, and finally to the United States Supreme Court.
	www.ferris.edu /news/jimcrow/links/misclink/plessy (1597 words)

	Plessy Vs Ferguson
		In 1896 the Plessy vs. Ferguson case was reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court.
		Plessy’s case went to trial a month after his arrest and Tourgee argued that Plessy’s civil rights under the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution had been violated.
		Homer Adolph Plessy lived an otherwise unremarkable life—he became an insurance agent and died in 1925 in his early sixties.
	www.gibbsmagazine.com /Plessy.htm (458 words)

	Results in
		In June 1892, Homer A. Plessy purchased a one-way ticket aboard the East Louisiana Railway, departing New Orleans and bound for Covington, Louisiana.
		If Plessy had not declared that he was a colored man when asked by the conductor, he almost certainly would not have been arrested (Medley 2003:142).
		What happened next is well-known: Plessy was arrested for violating the Louisiana Separate Car Act, his case was argued before the U. Supreme Court, and his conviction was upheld in Plessy v.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3757/is_200509/ai_n15353162 (345 words)

	Robert Ferguson -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Plessy vs. Ferguson and Brown vs. The Board of Education were two of the Supreme Court's historic decisions on civil rights.
		Educated for the Presbyterian ministry, Ferguson went to England in the 1650s and received the living of Godmersham, Kent, only to be ejected in 1662.
		As prime minister of New Zealand from 1912 until his death in 1925, William Ferguson Massey served in the Imperial War Cabinet during World War I and signed the Treaty of Versailles, making his country a founding member of the League of Nations.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9034039?tocId=9034039 (641 words)

	John Ferguson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Ferguson (judge) was a Louisiana judge, and defendant in the famous Plessy v.
		John Ferguson (senator) was the name shared by two 19th century Canadian Conservative politicians.
		John Ferguson (settler) was of the city of North Bay, Ontario, Canada.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Ferguson (188 words)

	One Hundred Years of Plessy v. Ferguson
		Ferguson 100 Years Later," he reminded the audience that much remains to be done in removing slavery’s disabilities.
		Ferguson ended with a debate between Chancellor Julius L. Chambers, of North Carolina Central University and Professor Robinson Everette, of The Law School, Duke University.
		While the Conference was named for Plessy v.
	www.apa.udel.edu /apa/archive/newsletters/v96n2/black/hundred.asp (1558 words)

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