John Howard Ferguson
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John Howard Ferguson was an American lawyer and judge from Louisiana, most famous as the defendant in the Plessy v. Ferguson case.
Photo of Ferguson family crypt
Separate but equal
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Separate but equal was a legal doctrine in United States constitutional law, according to which racial segregation did not necessarily violate the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitutio
John Howard Ferguson
…had previously ruled that the Louisiana Railway Car Act of 1890 (The Separate Car Act), a law declaring that Louisiana rail companies had to provide separate but equal accommodations for white and non-white passengers, was"unconstitutional on trains that travelled through several states" on Equal Protection grounds…
"We cater to white trade only". A restaurant in Lancaster, Ohio, in 1938.
A "colored" drinking fountain in Oklahoma City, 1939
1904 caricature of "White" and "Jim Crow" rail cars by John T. McCutcheon
Apartheid signs trainstation