The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (popularly known as the Constitution Annotated) contains legal analysis and interpretation of the United States Constitution, based primarily on Supreme Court case law. The chapter on the Fourtheenth Amendment references Plessy v. Ferguson.

This exhibition showcases the incomparable African American collections of the Library of Congress. Displaying more than 240 items, including books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, plays, films, and recordings.

On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court issued a decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, declaring that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.” The section A Century of Racial Segregation contains multiple references to Plessy v. Ferguson.

This exhibition, which commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, explores the events that shaped the civil rights movement, including the Plessy v. Ferguson decision.

This exhibition presents a retrospective of the major personalities, events, and achievements that shaped the NAACP’s history during its first 100 years, including the Plessy v. Ferguson decision.

Historic American newspapers selected and contributed by state partners in the National Digital Newspaper Program.

The U. S. Congress authorized a national initiative by passing The Civil Rights History Project Act of 2009. The law directs the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture to conduct a survey of existing oral history collections with relevance to the Civil Rights movement to obtain justice, freedom and equality for African Americans and to record new interviews with people who participated in the struggle, over a five year period beginning in 2010. Search on terms such as Plessy, segregation, and Jim Crow to find oral history interviews that discuss these topics.

This reference aid includes all the known images of discrimination signs found in the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information file of photographic prints.

"African American Perspectives" gives a panoramic and eclectic review of African American history and culture and is primarily comprised of two collections in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division: the African American Pamphlet Collection and the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection with a date range of 1822 through 1909. Most were written by African-American authors, though some were written by others on topics of particular importance in African-American history.

This Primary Source Set includes images, documents, maps, motion pictures, newspapers, and analysis tools to help teach about Jim Crow and segregation.

In this lesson plan students use Library of Congress primary sources to explore the era of legalized segregation.

On July 28, 1868, Secretary of State William Seward issued a proclamation certifying without reservation that the Fourteenth Amendment was a part of the United States Constitution. On May 18, 1896, the Supreme Court ruled in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson that "separate but equal" facilities were considered sufficient to satisfy the Fourteenth Amendment. This decision established a pattern in American society, until May 17, 1954 when the Court reversed the Plessy decision. In the case of Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka the Court held that segregation of public schools is a denial of equal protection under the law.

On May 18, 1896, the Supreme Court ruled separate-but-equal facilities constitutional on intrastate railroads. For some fifty years, the Plessy v. Ferguson decision upheld the principle of racial segregation. Across the country, laws mandated separate accommodations on buses and trains, and in hotels, theaters, and schools.