In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court decided that racial discrimination in accommodations was permissible. After 58 years, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka (1954) that racial accommodations were fundamentally unfair and therefore unconstitutional.
What impact did the Plessy rulings from the Supreme Court have?
Evidently, the US Supreme Court did not consider this when it rendered its decision in the Plessy v. Ferguson case in 1896. The Supreme Court upheld segregated areas for blacks and whites as long as they were treated equally, a ruling that would stand for nearly 60 years before being overturned.
What distinguishes the cases of Plessy and Ferguson?
Ferguson set a precedent in 1896. The "separate but equal" doctrine was used by the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that racial segregation was constitutional.
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