Chief Justice Earl Warren delivers the Supreme Court's landmark decision abolishing "separate but equal" schools in public education. School Integration, Barnard School, Washington, D.C. Photo by ...

refused to leave in order to trigger a case about the legality of segregation. In 1896, after years of trials appeals, the Supreme Court ruled that “separate but equal” was fair, and was not a ...

The ruling in Plessy v Ferguson was the start of the ‘separate-but-equal’ principle. This led to more segregation on transportation, in entertainment venues, in factories and at other places ...