Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Plessy v. Ferguson
The Supreme Court decision in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) permitted racial segregation so long as facilities were separate but equal. This type of segregation endured for nearly sixty years.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ap Us History: 1865 1898: Origins of Jim Crow Part 4
Reconstruction ended in the South and federal troops left once the Compromise Act was passed in 1877. This freed up the South to pass Jim Crow laws to enforce segregation. Then the Plessy v. Ferguson case (1896) in the Supreme Court...
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1865 1898: Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson was an 1896 Supreme Court case concerning whether "separate but equal" railway cars for black and white Americans violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In this video, Kim discusses the case...
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1865 1898: Compromise of 1877 Plessy v. Ferguson
Federal troops left the South after the Compromise of 1877, ending Reconstruction. The Supreme Court ruled that segregation did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment in the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896. [7:58]