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The Supreme Court Ruled in Plessy V Ferguson 1896 That

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Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that racial segregation laws did not violate the US. The Supreme Court decision in the case of Plessy v. Plessy V Ferguson Supreme Court rules seven to one that a Louisiana law providing for equal. . Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson decision upheld the principle of racial segregation over the next half-century. The ruling provided legal justification for segregation on trains and buses and in public facilities such as hotels theaters and schools. Ferguson 163 US 537 1896 is a SCOTUS case that reinforced that separate but equal does not violate the constitution. Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. In the court case Plessy v. B Jim Crow laws were a violation of the 14th amendment and must be overturned. In 1896 the Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. The Supreme Court in an opinion written by Justice Brown upheld the Louisiana law reasoning that the Fourteenth Amendment ...