A) Black Americans and white Americans benefited from the case's effects despite unequal facilities.
B) State governments discriminated against Black Americans by providing inferior facilities.
C) The federal government would provide services for Black Americans when states failed to.
D) The Supreme Court took an important step toward ending racial segregation in the United States.
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The correct answer is B) State governments discriminated against Black Americans by providing inferior facilities.
The ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine, which meant that it legitimized state-sponsored discrimination against Black Americans by allowing them access to separate facilities that were often of lower quality compared to those provided for white Americans.
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