SUPREME COURT DESCIONS
Subject:
Ahmed Elsayed Plessey VS. Ferguson Schenk VS. United States Gibbons Vs. Ogden Marbury VS. Madison Ahmed Elsayed Plessy VS. Ferguson Schenk VS. United States . Separate but equal . Yes, segregation but equal representation . Segregation legal . In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the U.S. Supreme Court decided that a Louisiana law mandating separate but equal accommodations for blacks and whites on intrastate railroads was constitutional. . This decision provided the legal foundation to justify many other actions by state and local governments to socially separate blacks and whites. . Plessy v. Ferguson was overturned in 1954 by Brown v. Board of Education.