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Question: Plessy v!. Ferguson!?
What was it!? Was it like blacks had the run-down section of everything while whites were clean and up-dated!? You can give websites!!!Www@QuestionHome@Com


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"In Plessy v!. Ferguson (1896), the U!.S!. Supreme Court decided that a Louisiana law mandating separate but equal accommodations for blacks and whites on intrastate railroads was constitutional!. This decision provided the legal foundation to justify many other actions by state and local governments to socially separate blacks and whites!. Plessy v!. Ferguson was overturned in 1954 by Brown v!. Board of Education"Www@QuestionHome@Com