Wallace intended to keep true to his promise of upholding segregation in the state and stopping "integration at the schoolhouse door".

The Delaware case was unique in that all the other state courts had upheld segregation.

Plessy v. Ferguson was the "separate but equal" decision that upheld segregation in 1896.

But it has refused to dismantle the system altogether, saying that laws that uphold residential segregation, for example, are necessary for the protection of whites.

The justices of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), who upheld racial segregation, could at least plead historical blinders.

He also joined the infamous case Plessy v. Ferguson that upheld racial segregation.

June 23 - A Federal Court ruling upholds segregation in SC public schools.

For the record, Plessy v. Ferguson was the 1896 case that upheld segregation.

This resulted in upholding segregation, which would be enforced with ever-growing strictness for more than half a century.

Still, as The Times of London reported, "He upheld racial segregation and white supremacy."