Responses
Segregation was legal as long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal.
Segregation was legal as long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal.
Segregation was acceptable on a state by state basis.
Segregation was acceptable on a state by state basis.
Segregation was acceptable in private facilities only.
Segregation was acceptable in private facilities only.
Segregation was legal because African Americans were not citizens.
1 answer
The correct response is:
Segregation was legal as long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal.
This was the key principle established by the Supreme Court in the Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) decision, which upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine.
