Plessy v Ferguson
Separate but equal
Plessy v.
Ferguson is an 1896 U.S.
Supreme Court decision that upheld racial segregation under the doctrine of "separate but equal." The ruling allowed states to require separate facilities for Black and white Americans, providing legal justification for Jim Crow laws across the South.
It remained constitutional precedent until Brown v.
Board of Education overturned it in 1954.
- segregationForced separation by group
- Jim CrowRacial separation laws
- separate but equalRacial segregation's constitutional fiction
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Plessy v FergusonBrown v. Board
Desegregation Supreme Court decision
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Plessy v FergusonThirteenth Amendment
Constitutional ban on bondage
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