USA HISTORY

THE 1970S 1969 1979

SUPREME COURT CASE ROE V WADE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
This case created separate but equal facilities and encouraged segregation
A
Brown vs. Board of Education
B
Plessy vs. Ferguson
C
Dred Scott v. Sandford
D
Korematsu v. U.S.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Ferguson, Judgement, Decided May 18, 1896; Records of the Supreme Court of the United States; Record Group 267; Plessy v. Ferguson, 163, #15248, National Archives. The ruling in this Supreme Court case upheld a Louisiana state law that allowed for “equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races."

Detailed explanation-2: -“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-3: -The Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson formalized the legal principle of “separate but equal". The ruling required “railway companies carrying passengers in their coaches in that State to provide equal, but separate, accommodations for the white and colored races".

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