RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE END OF RECONSTRUCTION AND THE ELECTION OF 1876
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Question
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What phrase did the Supreme Court use when it legalized segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson?
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that whites were “superior and different”
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that African Americans could be “separate but equal”
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that African Americans were “equal in the eyes of the law”
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that the Constitution provided “no civil rights protections under the law”
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Explanation:
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: -Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.
Detailed explanation-3: -Separate but Equal: The Law of the Land In the pivotal case of Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racially separate facilities, if equal, did not violate the Constitution. Segregation, the Court said, was not discrimination.
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