Plessy V. Ferguson
Digitally printed broadside
19 by 27 inches
2025
Plessy V. Ferguson was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision ruling that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as “separate but equal.” The decision legitimized the many state “Jim Crow laws” re-establishing the racial segregation that had re-emerged in the American South after the end of the Reconstruction era in 1877.
Such legally enforced segregation in the South lasted into the 1960s.
19 by 27 inches
2025
Plessy V. Ferguson was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision ruling that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as “separate but equal.” The decision legitimized the many state “Jim Crow laws” re-establishing the racial segregation that had re-emerged in the American South after the end of the Reconstruction era in 1877.
Such legally enforced segregation in the South lasted into the 1960s.
