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1. What was the issue in the Supreme Court case of Plessy v. Ferguson? What did the court rule?

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Homer Plessy rode in a whites-only railroad car and was arrested. He sued the railroad company. The Supreme Court ruled that segregation was legal as long as facilities for blacks were"separate but equal" to those of whites.
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