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What year did the supreme court in plessy vs Ferguson declares that racial segregation is okay?
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The supreme court decision Plessy v Ferguson was about?
Segregation
Who decision legalizing segregation?
The US Supreme Court.
What provided constitutional justification for segregation for almost sixty years?
The Supreme Court ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson is what provided constitutional justification for segregation. Segregation in public schools was outlawed in another Supreme Court ruling in 1954.
Was Plessy v Ferguson a boxing match?
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 US 537 (1896)No. Plessy v. Ferguson was a US Supreme Court case that legally sanctioned racial segregation.
What supreme court case made school segregation legal?
I think it was Plessy vs Ferguson
When did segregation of blacks and whites begin?
It began in 1896 when the Supreme Court ruled in Plessy vs Ferguson that racial segregation was constitutional.
In Plessy v. Ferguson the Supreme Court?
established separate-but-equal doctrine upholding segregation -scrfc369
What did plessy v Ferguson?
Segregation
What Supreme Court case established a legal basis for segregation under the concept of separate but equal?
brown vs. board of education
Why was the plessy v Ferguson case held?
In the Plessy decision, the Supreme Court ruled that such segregation did not violate the 14th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.
How did the Supreme Court's interpretation of the equal protection clause differ in the Plessy Ferguson and Brown v Board of Education rulings?
in plessy, the supreme court ruled that the clause allowed racial segregation; in the brown, it ruled that clause did not allow segregation
Was the Plessy v. Ferguson decision concerned with segregation?
Yes- Plessy v. Ferguson upheld the constitutionality of the "seperate but equal" (or segregation) clause.
