The 1896 court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson provided legal backing for segregation. The ruling established the "separate but equal" doctrine, which upheld the legality of racial segregation in public facilities.
During Reconstruction the 14th Amendment was passed in 1868 guaranteeing that no state could take away the rights of United States citizens. In spite of this amendment, Southern states did take away black people's rights as citizens.
Homer Plessy, a black person, was arrested on a railroad train and his case was appealed all the way to the Supreme Court. The 1896 court decision in Plessy v Ferguson became the legal basis for the next 60 years. The court ruled against Plessy and provided a legal backing for (1 point)
• poll taxes
• segregation
• literacy tests
• slavery
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Which of the following strategies were used to disenfranchise black Georgians in the early 1900s?
(1 point)
• Poll tax, literacy test, white primary
• Poll tax, white primary, voting rights act
• General elections, Fifteenth Amendment, poll tax
• Grandfather clause, white primary, Fifteenth Amendment
(1 point)
• Poll tax, literacy test, white primary
• Poll tax, white primary, voting rights act
• General elections, Fifteenth Amendment, poll tax
• Grandfather clause, white primary, Fifteenth Amendment
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