The Supreme Court made segregation under the Jim Crow laws illegal with the Plessy vs. Ferguson ruling. (1 point)

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False. The Supreme Court upheld segregation under the Jim Crow laws in the Plessy v. Ferguson ruling in 1896. It established the "separate but equal" doctrine, which allowed for racial segregation as long as the separate facilities were deemed equal. It wasn't until the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 that the Court declared racial segregation in public schools to be unconstitutional.