Plessy and the committee decided to take their argument to the United States Supreme Court. This case what not short lived. The Plessy v. Ferguson case lasted for four years before it made it to the United States Supreme Court. It was 1896 when the United States Supreme Court acknowledged the case and scheduled a hearing. The Supreme Court consisted of nine men, George Shirsa, Horance Gray, Rufus W. Peckham, Edward D. White, John M. Harlan, Henry B. Brown, David J. Brewer, Stephen J. Field, and Chief Justice Fuller. All of these nine men were White. Although the Supreme Court consisted of white men, there was one man that the Committee believed, would side with Plessy.
After all of the lawyers presented their cases in 1896 Plessy and the committee could just wait. Unlike before it only took one month before the suspense was over. On “May 18th, 1896, the final settlement was