"Laws permitting, and even requiring, their separation in places where they are liable to be brought into contact do not necessarily imply the inferiority of either race to the other... If one race be inferior to the other socially, the Constitution of the United States cannot put them upon the same plane." — Justice Henry Billings Brown, Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
The decision most directly contributed to:
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The legal entrenchment of Jim Crow segregation across the South
- B
The expansion of federal civil rights enforcement under Cleveland
- C
An immediate Black migration to industrial cities of the Midwest
- D
Repeal of the Fifteenth Amendment in southern states
Explanation
Plessy gave constitutional cover to a wave of southern segregation laws and disenfranchisement measures already underway in the 1890s.