jan 8, 1896 - Plessy v. Ferguson
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A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality. The decision legitimated the many state laws re-establishing racial segregation that had been passed in the American South after the end of the Reconstruction Era"Seperate but aqual". The Court had to decide on public education -> separation over races in the feed of education, the argument "separatation does not mean discrimination = the legal basis for face segregation in the South.
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Date:
jan 8, 1896
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~ 130 years ago