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What did the Supreme Court decide in Plessy v. Ferguson?

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Plessy V. Ferguson is was a U.S. Supreme Court case in which the court ruled that it was not unconstitutional for states to segregate based on race. This case is crucial in understanding the civil rights movement of the 60s and became the legal basis for racial segregation in the U.S. for the next fifty years.

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