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What was the main effect of the Supreme Court's 1896 ruling in Plessy versus Ferguson

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The main effect of the Supreme Court's 1896 ruling in Plessy versus Ferguson is that segregation in public schools was deemed Constitutional and therefore legal. It was later overturned by Brown V. Board of Education. 
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