Year: 1896
Result: 7-1 Ferguson won
Constitutional Issue: 14th amendment
Right or Liberty: Right
Significance: Segregation doesn't constitute unlawful discrimination.
Quote: "The information filed in the criminal District Court charged in substance that 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 to which he belonged, but he insisted upon going into a coach used by the race to which he did not belong."
Summary: Separate but equal is legally constitutional
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