what general principle was established with the Plessy v Ferguson supreme court decision

Answer 1

The general principle established by the Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) was the doctrine of "separate but equal." The Court upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities, stating that as long as the separate facilities for the separate races were equal, segregation did not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This decision legitimized the practice of segregation and contributed to the systemic discrimination that persisted in the United States until it was challenged by later civil rights movements and ultimately overturned in subsequent Supreme Court decisions, such as Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.