Plessy v. Ferguson: A Brief History with Documents
<DIV>In 1896, The Supreme Court's <I>Plessy v. Ferguson</I> decision made legal a system of "separate but equal" racial segregation not overruled until 1954. Using the full text of the Court's opinion, along with a selection of responses to the ruling, Brook Thomas allows students to re-create a context of the complicated debates and conditions in which the decision took place.</DIV>