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What was the impact the Plessyv. Ferguson Supreme Court case on African Americans?

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Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), was 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, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal"

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Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark Supreme Court decision. In 1892 Homer Plessy violated a Louisiana law by sitting in a whites only train car. He claimed it was unconstitutional, but lost. He appealed to the Supreme Court. He also lost there.

It preserved racial segregation by declaring "separate but equal" constitutional. Throughout the country, separate buses, train cars, restaurants, water fountains, hotels, and more continued to exist. In addition, racism against African Americans was upheld.

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