Plessy vs Ferguson
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Plessy vs Ferguson was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case in 1896 that upheld racial segregation laws and established the "separate but equal" doctrine. The case began when Homer Plessy, an African American man, refused to leave a whites-only train car in Louisiana and was arrested. Plessy argued that the segregation laws violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. However, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of segregation, stating that as long as the separate facilities were equal in quality, they did not violate the Constitution. This decision further entrenched racial segregation and discrimination in the United States for many decades.
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