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Plessy v. Ferguson
the "separate but equal" doctrine.
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.
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.
A Supreme Court decision is only irrelevant in two ways. The first is "de facto". This is when a decision is obviated by the fact that it no longer has any practical meaning. For instance, let's suggest that the Supreme Court once ruled on the use of debt sold by the government from 1800 to 1810. Now in 2008 that debt has either no value or no longer exists, so the law pertaining to that simply does not matter. De facto is latin for "in fact" or "in practice". The more common and controversial way is when the Court overrules a previous decision. This happened with Plessy v Ferguson and then Brown v Board of Education. In Brown v Board, the Court decided that its earlier decision of Plessy was a mistake so it was struck down and thus became irrelevant.
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Segregation
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The policy stemming from the 1896 Plessy v Ferguson Supreme Court decision was "separate but equal," which allowed for racial segregation as long as equal facilities were provided for both races. It resulted in the institutionalization of racial discrimination and the denial of civil rights to African Americans, leading to decades of racial inequality and oppression. This policy was eventually overturned by the 1954 Brown v Board of Education decision.
Plessy v. Ferguson, (1896)The "separate but equal" doctrine derived from the decision in the US Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson, (1896), delivered on May 18, 1896.The Plessy decision was later overturned by Brown v. Board of Education, (1954).Case Citation:Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 US 537 (1896)
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Plessy V Ferguson (1896)
The brown decision contradicted the plessy decision, holding that separate but equal treatment was not really equal
The Brown decision contradicted the plessy decision, holding that separate but equal treatment was not really equal
In the Plessy decision, the Supreme Court ruled that such segregation did not violate the 14th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.