PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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pass Jim Crow laws
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secede from the union
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segregate racial groups
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enslave African Americans
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Detailed explanation-1: -“Separate but equal” refers to the infamously racist decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) that allowed the use of segregation laws by states and local governments.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ferguson ruled that separate-but-equal facilities were constitutional. The Plessy v. Ferguson decision upheld the principle of racial segregation over the next half-century. The ruling provided legal justification for segregation on trains and buses, and in public facilities such as hotels, theaters, and schools.
Detailed explanation-3: -Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the Court ruled that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as “separate but equal".
Detailed explanation-4: -The Supreme Court established the “separate but equal” doctrine in the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson, reasoning that state-mandated segregation did not violate the 14th Amendment as long as the separate facilities provided for whites and blacks were basically equal.