Word: fergusons
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...exquisitely even-handed, race-neutral statute that forbade members of either race to occupy accommodations set aside for the other--with the exception of "nurses attending the children of the other race." Plessy insisted he was white, and when that failed, argued that criminal-court judge John H. Ferguson had violated his constitutional right to the equal protection of the laws...
...ruling on Plessy v. Ferguson, announced May 18, 1896, the Supreme Court declared laws mandating that "equal but separate" treatment of the races "do not necessarily imply the inferiority of either race," and cited the widely accepted propriety of separate schools for white and colored children. In dissent, Justice John Harlan remarked, "The thin disguise of 'equal' accommodations...will not mislead any one, nor atone for the wrong this day done...
...father Earl Spencer told him as a young man that he had dated Princess Elizabeth before she became QEII. And the Queen's other daughter-in-law had the honor of becoming the first royal-family member to be sued over a debt. A society hostess claims Sarah Ferguson owes her $142,500, money borrowed for a holiday in France. On the upside, Fergie's also the first royal to have had talks with CBS about having her own show...
...SARAH FERGUSON Duchess is $4.5 million in hock; Queen won't bail...
FERGIE, SKY, NO DIAMONDS Jewelry heists haven't the cachet they once had. When the Duchess of York, SARAH FERGUSON, lost a diamond necklace and bracelet somewhere between J.F.K. and Heathrow airports, the FBI and British Airways tracked them down to a shed belonging to Gilbert Terrero, a J.F.K. baggage handler who is possibly in need of a subscription to PEOPLE. The Terrero family claims Gilbert, who was arrested, found the gems and didn't know whose they were. Opined sister Wanda: "I wore nicer jewelry for my Sweet...