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How did the Supreme Court and Southern state governments limit the rights of African Americans in the late 1800s?

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Plessy v Ferguson

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Plessy v Ferguson allowed for "separate but equal" accommodations in public settings. This legally allowed for discrimination and the creation of Jim Crow laws. Laws were put in place to prevent African Americans from voting such as poll taxes or literacy tests. African Americans were also forced into sharecropping which turned into legal slavery.

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