Authors: Henry Billings Brown

Supreme Court
1877–1917

Plessy v. Ferguson

Source: 163 U.S. 537; https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/163/537. Justice BROWN delivered the opinion of the Court, joined by Chief Justice Fuller and Justices FIELD, GRAY, SHIRAS, WHITE, and PECKHAM. [Homer Plessy] was a

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The Judiciary
1877–1917

Plessy v. Ferguson

Source: 163 US 537 (1896), https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/163/537. MR. JUSTICE BROWN, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court. . . .It is also suggested by the learned counsel for

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Race and Civil Rights
1877–1917

Plessy v. Ferguson

Source: 163 U.S. 537; available at https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/163/537. Mr. Justice BROWN . . . delivered the opinion of the Court. . . .The petition for the writ of prohibition averred that

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1917–1929

Downes v. Bidwell

Source: Downes v. Bidwell, 182 U.S. 244 (1901), available at https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/182/244/. We have removed in-text references to laws and court decisions. All footnotes provided by the editors. . . . Mr. Justice

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1860–1877

Plessy v. Ferguson

Source: 163 U.S. 537; https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/163/537 Justice BROWN delivered the opinion of the Court, joined by Chief Justice Fuller and Justices FIELD, GRAY, SHIRAS, WHITE, and PECKHAM. [Homer Plessy] was a

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