On this day, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered its landmark decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation under the doctrine of “separate but equal.” The ruling provided legal justification for the Jim Crow laws that enforced racial segregation across the Southern United States for decades, shaping systemic discrimination in education, transportation, housing, and public accommodations.
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