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Which best explains why the Supreme Court’s decision in Plessy v. Ferguson was unconstitutional?

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the ruling did not follow the 14 amendment if i remember correctly. It denied equaltiy and allowed states to make their own laws concerning nonwhites
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Since segregation laws did not provide equal protections or liberties to non-whites, the ruling was not consistent with the 14th Amendment.
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