Plessy v. Ferguson
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plessy-v-ferguson-164-16186228
title:
Plessy v. Ferguson
text:
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision ruling that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for people of color were equal in quality to those of white people, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal". The decision legitimized the many state "Jim Crow laws" re-establishing racial segregation that had been passed in the American South after the end of the Reconstruction era in 1877. Such le
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1896 U.S. Supreme Court case on racial segregation
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plessy_v._Ferguson
date created:
2002-10-29T20:35:47Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T01:46:17Z
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