Question

The Supreme Court ruling in _____ v. _____ set the stage for 58 more years of legal racial discrimination.

Answer 1

As the 18th century came to a close, the Supreme Court set the course of Southern race relations for the next 58 years as the 1896 ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson sanctioned the policy of “separate but equal.” Notwithstanding, direct action and legal challenges persisted until the 1954 Supreme Court ruling in Brown v.