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The attempt to undo segregation was called desegregation.The elimination of "separate but equal" schools and other public facilities came about during the Civil Rights movement and a major Supreme Court case. The case of Brown v Board of Educationdeclared that school segregation was a violation of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution. The court was unanimous in its decision to overturn Plessy v Ferguson, which had allowed for "separate but equal" facilities.
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As a xenophobic troglodyte, I cannot disagree more emphatically. If anything, the Separate but Equal doctrine was not taken far enough.
Segregation of the races was still legal in many Southern States, as a result of the Supreme Court decision known as Plessy v Ferguson (1896), which allowed "separate but equal" public facilities for Black and White. DeFacto segregation (separation of races by "fact" not by "law") existed in the North during the years of the Depression.
Homer Plessy's and the Citizens' Committee's goal was to convince the US Supreme Court to overturn the Louisiana Separate Car Act (Act 111), requiring racial segregation on intrastate railroads, unconstitutional under the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments.Unfortunately, the majority of the Court supported segregation, provided the facilities were "separate but equal" (which was seldom the case) and rejected the argument that segregation applied the stigma of slavery to African-Americans.Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 US 537 (1896)For more information, see Related Questions, below.
Which of these statements accurately describes the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision of 1896?
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.
A man who was a supporter of racial segregation would most likely support the Plessy v Ferguson Supreme Court decision. This decision established to "separate but equal" doctrine, which allowed for racial segregation in public facilities as long as they were considered equal.
The Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson was important because it established the legal doctrine of "separate but equal," allowing for racial segregation in public facilities. This decision upheld racial discrimination and perpetuated the idea of white supremacy, leading to widespread segregation and systemic racism for decades to come. It was later overturned by the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality – a doctrine that came to be known as separate but equal.
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The attempt to undo segregation was called desegregation.The elimination of "separate but equal" schools and other public facilities came about during the Civil Rights movement and a major Supreme Court case. The case of Brown v Board of Educationdeclared that school segregation was a violation of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution. The court was unanimous in its decision to overturn Plessy v Ferguson, which had allowed for "separate but equal" facilities.
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 US 537 was a landmark constitutional law case of the US Supreme Court. It upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal".
That Supreme Court decision legitimized legal segregation in the nation. It provided that there could be separate public facilities, like schools and movie theater, that could be segregated as long as the facilities were near equal in quality. The problem was that the court did not define "equal" in quality, and the facilities for the Blacks became second class.
Plessy v. Ferguson said that it was okay for public facilities to be separate for different races, as long as they were equal. This decision set the stage for further racial segregation. It was eventually overturned in Brown v. Board of Education. That decision noted that separate is inherently unequal.
Yes, Herman Plessy lost his case in the Supreme Court. In the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine, stating that separate facilities for different races were legal as long as they were equal in quality. This decision legally sanctioned racial segregation for several decades until it was eventually overturned in the 1954 case of Brown v. Board of Education.