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This was a U.S. Supreme Court decision that established the legality of racial segregation so long as facilities were "separate but equal."?
Zhy'keria McCoy
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896)
The Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson, (1896) was a landmark case that upheld a Louisiana statute allowing for "equal but separate" facilities. The facilities in question were railway cars which were divided by partition and offered the same accommodations to white and "colored" races. It was found that these provisions were not in conflict with the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
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∙ 13y agoAt first, yes; however, the Court later concluded "separate but equal" is unconstitutional.
In Plessy v Ferguson, (1896), the US Supreme Court held "separate but equal" facilities were constitutional; however, they reversed their position 60 years later when the Warren Court declared the doctrine unconstitutional in public education, in Brown v. Board of Education, (1954).
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∙ 13y agoIt was legal as long as the African Americans had access to public facilities
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Plessy v. Ferguson pretty sure
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