During Reconstruction the 14th Amendment was passed in 1868 guaranteeing that no state could take away the rights of United States citizens. In spite of this amendment, Southern states did take away black people's rights as citizens. Homer Plessy, a black person, was arrested on a railroad train and his case was appealed all the way to the Supreme Court. The 1896 court decision in Plessy v Ferguson became the legal basis for the next 60 years.
The court ruled against Plessy and provided a legal backing for
The correct answer is segregation. The Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v Ferguson established the "separate but equal" doctrine, which allowed for the legal segregation of public facilities and institutions based on race. This decision was used to justify racial segregation and discrimination for the next six decades until it was eventually overturned by the landmark case of Brown v Board of Education in 1954.
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Yes, I am sure. The Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v Ferguson provided a legal basis for segregation. It established the "separate but equal" doctrine, which allowed for the segregation of public facilities and institutions based on race. This decision upheld the Jim Crow laws and policies that enforced racial segregation and discrimination in the Southern states for several decades.
