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What effect, if any, did Plessy v. Ferguson have on the South's Jim Crow laws?

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The Court's “separate but equal” decision in Plessy v. Ferguson on that date upheld state-imposed Jim Crow laws. It became the legal basis for racial segregation in the United States for the next fifty years.
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