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Supreme Court Landmarks | Separate and Unequal | 3

American History Tellers

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The Supreme Court's Decision in Ferguson

On May 18th 1896 the Supreme Court handed down its verdict in the case of Plessy V Ferguson. It was just a little over a month since Algian Torzi had traveled to Washington argue Plessy's case. In spite of Torzi's calculations all but Justice John Marshall Harlan had ruled against his client Now any one of the country's 45 states could forcibly and legally segregate people of different races. The decision did not create any new justification for racial segregation it only locked the old justifications into place.

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