Question

How did the majority of Supreme Court justices in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson interpret the 14th Amendment?

Racial segregation is constitutional if the facilities are the same for everyone.


All citizens are equal under the law and therefore segregation is illegal.


Blacks are not citizens and therefore have no legal protection.


Separate but equal facilities only apply to white citizens, not blacks.

Answer 1

Answer: In an opinion authored by Justice Henry Billings Brown, the majority upheld state-imposed racial segregation. Justice Brown conceded that the 14th Amendment intended to establish absolute equality for the races before the law, but held that separate treatment did not imply the inferiority of African Americans.

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Answer 2

the answer is, Racial segregation is constitutional if the facilities are the same for everyone.

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