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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)

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Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 US 537 (1896)
it legalized the public segregation of blacks and whites

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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

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