Question

What does the Supreme Court ruling about "Separate but Equal" mean?

Black individuals are not citizens and therefore do not have equal rights
Black individuals are not citizens and therefore do not have equal rights

Separate facilities for white and black people was constitutional as long as the facilities were equal
Separate facilities for white and black people was constitutional as long as the facilities were equal

The 14th amendment was unconstitutional
The 14th amendment was unconstitutional

Separate public facilities for white and black people was unconstitutiona no links please help

Answer 1

The answer is that separate facilities for white and black people was constitutional as long as the facilities were equal.

Step-by-step explanation:

Separate but equal was a legal doctrine in American constitutional law that justified systems of segregation.

Under this doctrine, services, facilities and public accommodations were allowed to be separated by race, on the condition that the quality of each group’s public facilities was to remain equal.

Although the Constitutional doctrine required equality, the facilities and social services offered to African-Americans were almost always of lower quality than those offered to white Americans.

The doctrine of “separate but equal” was legitimized in the 1896 Supreme Court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.