Brown v. Board of Education
The social system that provided separate facilities for the minorities was called 'separate, but equal.' The Supreme Court eventually found that they were not equal.
The Supreme Court decided that the state governments could legally separate people of different races as long as the separate facilities were equal.
Brown vs. Board overturned the Supreme Court decision of Plessy vs. Ferguson. That decision ruled that having separate facilities for African-Americans and white people was constitutional so long as these facilities remained equal. Brown vs. Board proved that these separate conditions were not kept equal, and Plessy vs. Ferguson was overturned.
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.
The Supreme Court decision that allowed for the segregation of blacks in separate but equal facilities was Plessy v. Ferguson, decided in 1896. The Court upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine, asserting that as long as the separate facilities for blacks and whites were equal, segregation did not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This ruling legitimized state-sponsored segregation until it was eventually overturned by Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.
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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.
As a xenophobic troglodyte, I cannot disagree more emphatically. If anything, the Separate but Equal doctrine was not taken far enough.
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 US 537 (1896) 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".
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Plessy v. Ferguson, (1896)The Supreme Court held a Louisiana state law requiring African-Americans and whites travel in separate railroad cars was constitutional, as long as the facilities provided were separate but equal (the opinion actually says, "equal but separate"). The decision legally sanctioned racist and segregationist policies already in effect, particularly in the South, and encouraged the adoption of discriminatory Jim Crow laws.
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