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Which of these statements accurately describes the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision of 1896?
he was a judge for the supreme court in separate but equal.
In the pivotal case of Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racially separate facilities, if equal, did not violate the Constitution. Segregation, the Court said, was not discrimination.
1954
The supreme court in plessy v fergussion based on a theory that separate can be equal but in reality it's not
the court's interpretation of whether the equal protection clause allowed racial segregation
Separate but equal
No, the phrase "separate but equal" does not appear in the US Constitution. It was a legal doctrine that developed after the Civil War and was later overturned by the Supreme Court in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.
Brown vs. The Board of Education ruled that separate but equal was unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court decided that the state governments could legally separate people of different races as long as the separate facilities were equal.
It upheld the "separate but equal" doctrine.