Plessy is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision ruling that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for African-Americans were equal in quality to those of white people, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal". The decision legitimized the many state "Jim Crow laws" re-establishing racial segregation that had been passed in the American South after the end of the Reconstruction era in 1877. Such legally enforced segregation in the South lasted into the 1960s.
Pitot is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Homer Adolph Plessy was an American shoemaker and activist, who was the plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson. He staged an act of civil disobedience to challenge one of Louisiana's racial segregation laws and bring a test case to force the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on the constitutionality of segregation laws. The Court decided against Plessy. The resulting "separate but equal" legal doctrine determined that state-mandated segregation did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution as long as the facilities provided for both black and white people were putatively "equal". The legal precedent set by Plessy v. Ferguson lasted into the mid-20th century, until a series of landmark Supreme Court decisions concerning segregation, beginning with Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.
Mài is a Chinese surname. It is commonly transliterated as Mak in Hong Kong, based on the Cantonese pronunciation, though other transliterations exist. "麥" is the standard character in both Traditional and Simplified scripts but 麦 is also a variant seen in both. The meaning of the Chinese character is either wheat or barley. According to a 2013 study, 麦 was the 200th most common surname, shared by 550,000 people or 0.041% of China's population, with Guangdong being the province with the most.
Mulrooney is a surname of Irish origin from the Irish. Notable people with the surname include:
Smet is a Dutch occupational surname. Smet is a regional form of Smid ("Smith") and is equivalent to the more abundant surname Smit. It is common in East Flanders. People named Smet include:
PlessisPlessy, and de Plessis are related surnames of French origin, may refer to:
Ibn Mubarak is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Arnould is a given name and surname. Notable people with the name include:
Zlatarić is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Marchesini is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
McCary is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Smets is a Dutch occupational surname. It is a common name in the Belgian provinces of Antwerp and Flemish Brabant. Despite its similarity to the Dutch surnames Smet, Smits, and Smeets, each equivalent to Smith, Smets (sometimes?) originated from "des Mets", short for "des Metselaars". People named Smets include:
Towey is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Bogati is a surname found in Nepal. They belong to the highest of the Chhetri community in Nepal. Mostly scattered around western Nepal and of military background. Some believe Gorkha to be their home land. Several families of whom came with the conquest of Kathmandu reside in the valley mainly in Lalitpur. Notable people with the surname include:
Coval is a surname.
Kovačevski is a Macedonian surname. Its Bulgarian form is Kovachevski. Notable people with the surname include:
Murati is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Ravelo is a surname and given name of Spanish origin, originating as a habitational surname. Notable people with the surname or given name include:
Homère is a French masculine given name, and is French for Homer. Notable people with the name include: