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Why was Plessy v Ferguson (1896) not an accident? (The rise and fall of Jim Crow)

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Plessy v. Ferguson was important because it essentially established the constitutionality of racial segregation. As a controlling legal precedent, it prevented constitutional challenges to racial segregation for more than half a century until it was finally overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in Brownv.

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