Concept information
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education in society and culture
multiculturalism and special populations
African American education
legal cases
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education in society and culture
multiculturalism and special populations
African American education
legal cases
social science subjects
sociology
race, ethnicity and migration
legislation, court decisions, and treaties
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criminology and criminal justice
criminology
social history of crime
state and federal court cases
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social history of crime
courts, corrections, punishments
United States Supreme Court
Supreme Court cases
Preferred term
Plessy v. Ferguson
Definition
- Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) is the notorious “separate but equal” case in which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Jim Crow segregation laws as constitutional. Although the phrase “separate but equal” does not appear in the decision itself, the doctrine it represents gave legal sanction to legalized segregation. [Source: Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society; Plessy v. Ferguson]
Broader concept
Belongs to group
Date
- 1896
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Plessy_v._Ferguson
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