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Supreme
Court of the United States
The
Court upheld the Louisiana State Supreme Court's
decision and declared that the "Separate
Car Act" was constitutional as long as
there were separate but equal accommodations
for both whites and blacks. It further stated
that the legal distinction made by the Act
did not in any way destroy the legal equality
of the two races.
(As
to the question Plessy raised in his petition
to the Louisiana State Supreme Court about
his not being black, the Supreme Court of
the United States recognized that it may be
an important question, but the question was
not properly put in issue in this case.)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
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