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Plessy v. Ferguson was a 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld racial segregation laws under the "separate but equal" doctrine. The decision legitimized Jim Crow laws in the South and was overruled by Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.
21 Οκτ 2024 · Plessy v. Ferguson was a 1896 Supreme Court case that upheld racial segregation laws under the "separate but equal" doctrine. It was overturned by Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 and challenged the constitutionality of the Fourteenth Amendment's equal-protection clause.
29 Οκτ 2009 · Plessy v. Ferguson was a 1896 Supreme Court case that upheld racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. The case involved a mixed-race man who refused to sit in a whites-only railroad car and challenged the constitutionality of the law that mandated segregation.
Separate but equal, the legal doctrine that once allowed for racial segregation in the United States. The doctrine held that so long as segregation laws affected white and Black people equally, those laws did not violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S.
Learn about the 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld racial segregation laws under the "separate but equal" doctrine. Find out how the case was challenged, decided, and overturned by Brown v. Board of Education.
Plessy v. Ferguson was a Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation based on the Fourteenth Amendment. The case was overturned by Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, and Justice Harlan dissented on the grounds of civil rights.
A Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws in the United States. The majority opinion argued that separate but equal facilities were consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment, while the dissenting opinion rejected the notion of racial inferiority and advocated for equal rights.
