What did the Supreme court decide in Plessy v Ferguson?

Answer 1

In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine. The case arose when Homer Plessy, an African American, was arrested for sitting in a whites-only train car. The Court ruled that racial segregation did not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, effectively legitimizing state laws that enforced racial discrimination. This decision reinforced systemic racism and segregation in the United States for decades until it was eventually overturned by Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.