WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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South Carolina passed a special tax to make sure segregated schools were equal.
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South Carolina passed Jim Crow laws to promote segregation in public facilities.
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South Carolina passed laws that went against the decision because they believed the Supreme Court was wrong.
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South Carolina passed special laws to outlaw discriminatory practices such as the Grandfather Clause.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Plessy v. Ferguson verdict enshrined the doctrine of “separate but equal” as a constitutional justification for segregation, ensuring the survival of the Jim Crow South for the next half-century.
Detailed explanation-2: -On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously ruled that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. The Court said, “separate is not equal, ” and segregation violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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".