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Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 US 537 (1896)

John Howard Ferguson was the judge in Orleans Parish, Louisiana, who heard the case of Homer A. Plessy under the Separate Car Act of 1890. Judge Ferguson had previously ruled that the act did not apply to interstate travel. Because he was named in the petition to the Louisiana Supreme Court, Ferguson was the appellant of record in the US Supreme Court case.

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Homer A. Plessy was the plaintiff/petitioner and John H. Ferguson was the defendant/respondent in the US Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson, (1896).

Homer Plessy was citizen of New Orleans whose heritage was part African-American. He helped challenge and was arrested for violating the Louisiana Separate Car Act of 1890 that required separate railroad cars for white and non-white travelers.

John Ferguson was an Orleans Parrish, New Orleans, judge who found Plessy guilty of breaking the law, and whose decision was appealed through the Louisiana state courts, all the way to the US Supreme Court.

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Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 US 537 (1896)

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Homer A. Plessy was citizen of New Orleans whose heritage was part African-American. He helped challenge and was arrested for violating the Louisiana Separate Car Act of 1890 that required separate railroad cars for white and non-white travelers.

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Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 US 537 (1896)

The defendant (actually respondent), John Howard Ferguson, was the judge in Orleans Parish, Louisiana, who heard the case of Homer A. Plessy under the Separate Car Act of 1890. Judge Ferguson had previously ruled that the act did not apply to interstate travel. Because he was named in the petition to the Louisiana Supreme Court, Ferguson was the appellant of record in the US Supreme Court case.

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Homer Plessy lost. The US Supreme Court upheld Judge Ferguson's ruling and validated the Louisiana Separate Car Act of 1890, paving the way for segregationist Jim Crow laws and other civil rights violations against African-Americans.

The "separate but equal" doctrine established in Plessy v. Ferguson, (1896) was eventually overturned by the Warren Court in Brown v. Board of Education, (1954).

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Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 US 537 (1896)

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