In 1896 the Supreme Court sanctioned legal separation of the races by its ruling on the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments in order to set legal precedents.
Apartheid
Reconstruction
== == Plessy v. Ferguson == ==
1896: Plessy v Ferguson That was when the courts ruled that segregation was legal, if equal accommodations were provided for both Blacks and Whites.
Segregation is the forced separation of whites and African Americans in public. Jim Cow laws are laws that enforced segregation.
fourteenth amendment
Apartheid
Apartheid.
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Reconstruction
Reconstruction
Reconstruction
Reconstruction
Which of these statements accurately describes the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision of 1896?
The Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson was delivered in 1896. The Court upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine, allowing for state-sponsored segregation laws. This ruling effectively legalized racial discrimination and set a precedent that would persist for decades until it was overturned by Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.
== == Plessy v. Ferguson == ==
1896: Plessy v Ferguson That was when the courts ruled that segregation was legal, if equal accommodations were provided for both Blacks and Whites.