Wnet: Thirteen: Supreme Court Landmark Cases: Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

From a PBS series about the Supreme Court, Plessy v. Ferguson is considered one of the landmark cases in the court's first 100 years. Read about the background of this important case, read about the thinking of the majority of the court in making this decision, and find out about why Justice John Marshall Harlan thought that the decision was a travesty.