Plessy v. Ferguson Article

How did Plessy v. Ferguson affect segregation in the United States?

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Plessy v. Ferguson strengthened racial segregation in public accommodations and services throughout the United States and ensured its continuation for more than half a century by giving it constitutional sanction. The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Brownv. Board of Education of Topeka explicitly rejected Plessy’s “separate but equal” doctrine as it applied to public education and implied its unconstitutionality in all other spheres of public life.