Plessy v. Ferguson, decided by the United States Supreme Court on May 18, 1896, ruled that separate-but-equal facilities were constitutional. Over the next half-century, the Plessy v. Ferguson decision upheld the principle of racial segregation.
Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark 1896 United States Supreme Court decision that upheld racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine.
The case arose from an incident in 1892 in which African American train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a car reserved for black passengers.
The Supreme Court rejected Plessy's claim that his constitutional rights were violated, ruling that a law that "implies merely a legal distinction" between white people and Black people was not unconstitutional. As a result, Jim Crow laws and separate public accommodations based on race became the norm.
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