What was the supreme Courts decisions in the 1896 plessy v. Ferguson case

Answer 1

In the landmark case of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine. Homer Plessy, an African American man, challenged a Louisiana law that required separate seating on trains for different races. Plessy argued that this violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

However, the Supreme Court, in a 7-1 decision, ruled against Plessy. Justice Henry Billings Brown, who wrote the majority opinion, stated that the law did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment as long as the separate facilities or accommodations for different races were equal in quality. This decision established the "separate but equal" doctrine, which became a cornerstone for legal racial segregation for the next six decades until it was overturned in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education (1954).