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3 unusual facts about Plessy v. Ferguson


Brian: Portrait of a Dog

During his parole hearing, he references the court case Plessy v. Ferguson, but unfortunately for him, the council believe that it's stupid to listen to a dog.

While arguing his case before the city council, Brian tries to reference the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson, before being cut off.

Caesar Antoine

Plessy's action ultimately led to the Plessy v. Ferguson decision by the United States Supreme Court, which affirmed the legality of "separate-but-equal" facilities.


Bruce K. Ferguson

He has served as visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin and Tsinghua University in Beijing, and has lectured at Cornell, Berkeley, Harvard, and 20 other universities.

Charles A. Ferguson

Charles Albert Ferguson (July 6, 1921 – September 2, 1998) was a U.S. linguist who taught at Stanford University.

Daniel C. Ferguson

Ferguson then attempted a 14 billion dollar merger with Rubbermaid to try to restore confidence of others which failed to produced the expected results.

In 1950 after earning an MBA from Stanford University he began his business carrier with Newell Rubbermaid and beginning in 1962, the affiliated Newell Companies, including Western Newell, Newell Window Furnishings and Newell Manufacturing were consolidated into a single corporation and was headquartered in Freeport, Illinois.

David Ferguson

David R. Ferguson (born 1962), American sound engineer and record producer

Detroit Historical Museum

In attendance were such dignitaries as Governor G. Mennen Williams, Mayor Albert E. Cobo, U.S. Senator Homer S. Ferguson, the French and British ambassadors and Detroit native and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Ralph Bunche of the United Nations.

Emory C. Ferguson

Along with Edson F. Cady, he was a founder of Snohomish, which would become the county seat from 1862 until 1896.

In March 1860 Ferguson arrived at Cadyville, the town having been established by and named after Edson Cady.

Eugene Ferguson

Eugene S. Ferguson (1916–2004), engineer and historian of technology

G. E. Ferguson

Upon reaching Atebubu, Ferguson negotiated a treaty with the local chiefs, who feared aggression from Asante, which they had seceded from in 1875.

George Ferguson

G. E. Ferguson (1864–1897), Fante government official in the British colony Gold Coast

Grutter v. Bollinger

"Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens." Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 527, 559, ... (1896) (Harlan, J., dissenting).

Herbert M. Allison

Allison retired from TIAA-CREF in 2008, and was succeeded by Roger W. Ferguson, Jr..

Homer Plessy

Homer Adolph Plessy (March 17, 1862 – March 1, 1925) was the American Creole plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson.

Isaac H. Ferguson

Isaac H. Ferguson - (About 1776 - January 1, 1848) was the first settler of Marine Township, Illinois, Ferguson moved to Texas in 1846 and at the age of 70 became a company commander of Rusk County, Texas to fight in the Mexican-American War.

James E. Ferguson

He entered Salado College at age twelve but was eventually expelled for disobedience.

James H. Williams, Jr.

Furthermore, in 1963 the Shipyard chose to award him a four-year full Homer L. Ferguson Scholarship to MIT.

Jay R. Ferguson

His notable television roles include Taylor Newton in four seasons of the CBS sitcom Evening Shade, Dr. Todd Hooper on Judging Amy, Rich Connelly in the 2005 NBC television series Surface, Agent Warren Russell on the Showtime series Sleeper Cell and most recently Stan Rizzo on the AMC series Mad Men.

Joseph Dippolito

On April 16, 1971, his sentence was reduced from ten to five years by Judge Warren J. Ferguson and he started serving his sentence.

Kate Ferguson

She married the Civil War hero General Samuel W. Ferguson (1834-1917), and their house became a social center in Greenville, Mississippi.

Lanercost Priory

In the 1870s, there was further restoration by the Carlisle architect C. J. Ferguson.

Miriam A. Ferguson

After her victory in the Democratic primary, she defeated George C. Butte, a prominent lawyer and University of Texas dean who emerged as the strongest Republican gubernatorial nominee in Texas since Reconstruction in 1869.

Mount Ferguson

It was discovered and photographed by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928–30), and named for Homer L. Ferguson, president of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, VA, which made repairs and alterations on Byrd Expedition ships.

Pat Morris Neff

Neff was succeeded as governor by Miriam Wallace "Ma" Ferguson, wife of controversial former Governor James E. Ferguson, who defeated a stronger-than-usual Republican nominee, George C. Butte, an American jurist who had opposed James Ferguson's line item veto of the 1917 University of Texas appropriations bill.

PublicAffairs

In early 2008 PublicAffairs published a book version of Charles Ferguson's documentary film No End in Sight, nominated for a 2007 Academy Award.

R. G. Ferguson

Furthermore, Dr. Ferguson was a pioneer in long-term BCG (Bacillus Calmette Guėrin) research, quite controversial at the time.

R. v. Stevens

On this issue, Wilson gave extensive consideration to the majority decision of the British Columbia Court of Appeal in R. v. Ferguson, 1987 6 W.W.R. 481.

Reesa Greenberg

In addition to publishing numerous essays on contemporary Canadian art and artists, she has written extensively on the theory and practice of exhibition experience in the contemporary museum, most notably in the book Thinking about Exhibitions (1996), that she co-edited with Sandy Nairne and Bruce W. Ferguson.

Sandy Nairne

In 1996, Nairne co-edited with Reesa Greenberg and Bruce W. Ferguson the book Thinking about Exhibitions (1996), a review of international practice in contemporary art exhibitions.

Separate Car Act

Finally, the case ended in the Supreme Court of the United States in Plessy v. Ferguson with the judgment being upheld, leading to the judicial sanction of "separate but equal".

Short title catalogue

STC: A. W. Pollard and G. R. Redgrave, editors: A short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland and Ireland, and of English books printed abroad 1475-1640. Second edition, revised and enlarged, begun by W. A. Jackson and F. S. Ferguson, completed by K. F. Pantzer.

Stephen of Perm

(Originally published in 1967, in To Honor Roman Jakobson, ed. by Morris Halle, pp. 643–653. The Hague: Mouton. Also reprinted in 1968 Language Problems of Developing Nations, ed. by Joshua Fishman, Charles Ferguson, and J. Das Gupta, pp. 27–35. New York Wiley and Sons.) Language Structure and Language Use: Essays by Charles Ferguson, ed.

Thomas A. Ferguson

Since retiring from government service, Ferguson has run a consulting business based out of Howard County, Maryland.

Thomas C. Ferguson

From 1984 to 1987 Mr. Ferguson was Deputy Commissioner and Chief Operating Officer of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service in Washington, DC.

On April 8, 1987 he was nominated to be the ambassador Ambassador of the United States to Brunei Darussalam.

Timothy R. Ferguson

Ferguson attended Eastern Vocational-Technical High School in Essex, Maryland.

Warren J. Ferguson

Upon return, he earned his J.D. from University of Southern California in 1949.

Wilkie D. Ferguson

Ferguson was a member of the panel that investigated the 1968 Liberty City riots.

William R. Reed

Reed first joined the Big Ten in 1939 before leaving for a six-year period to serve in the United States Navy during World War II and then as an assistant to Homer S. Ferguson, United States Senator from Michigan.


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