The Supreme Court decided "separate but equal" (i.e.,segregation) was constitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment, as long as the facilities or accommodations were equal.
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In Plessy v. Ferguson, (1896), the U.S. Supreme Court decided that a Louisiana law, The Separate Car Act of 1890 (Act 111), requiring African-Americans and Caucasians to travel in separate railroad cars was constitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection Clause, as long as the accommodations provided for the African-Americans were equal to those provided for Whites.
This validated the "separate but equal" doctrine whites used to avoid accepting African-Americans as peers, and allowed the proliferation of Jim Crow laws throughout the South. The decision validated segregation as legal.
The ruling appeared to contradict a recent decision prohibiting segregation on trains traveling across state lines. In the earlier case, the Court invoked Congress' authority to regulate commerce between the states under the Constitution's Interstate Commerce Clause, not the Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection Clause. In Plessy, the Court upheld the Louisiana state courts' ruling by a vote of 7-1 (Justice Brewer took no part in the case; Justice John Marshall Harlan dissented).
The precedent in Plessy v. Ferguson held until explicitly overturned by the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education, (1954)
Case Citation:
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 US 537 (1896)
it legalized the public segregation of blacks and whites
the Court rejected Plessy's arguments based on the Fourteenth Amendment, seeing no way in which the Louisiana statute violated it .segregation was supported by the Jim crow laws
Delegation of rasict everywhere for example schools hospital and drinking fountain many more etc.
what was Plessy vs ferguson
"Seperate but Equal", from the case Plessy vs. Ferguson.
This is from the Supreme Court case Plessy vs. Ferguson.
Plessy vs Ferguson was the court case that supported Jim Crow laws stating that "seperate but equal" was constitutional.
That would be the Supreme Court Case Plessy vs. Furgeson
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.
plessy vs. ferguson
the decision of plessy vs. ferguson
brown vs. board of education
Plessy v. Ferguson ruled in 1896 that separate, but "equal" facilities for blacks and whites were constitutional (but they ended up not being "equal" at all). Brown v. Board of Education overturned this ruling, stating that separate but "equal" schools for blacks and whites were unconstitutional.
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