Plessy vs Ferguson
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Plessy vs Ferguson was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case in 1896 that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine. The case was initiated when Homer Plessy, an African American man, refused to sit in a segregated railroad car designated for Black individuals in Louisiana. Plessy was subsequently arrested, and the case made its way to the Supreme Court. The court upheld the state law allowing for segregation, stating that as long as the facilities were equal, the separation of races was constitutional. This decision led to the legitimizing of legal racial segregation and the continuation of discriminatory Jim Crow laws until they were challenged and overturned in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
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