In upholding Louisiana’s Separate Car Act, the Supreme Court claimed that

In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court upheld Louisiana’s Separate Car Act under the “separate but equal” doctrine. The Court claimed that legally separating Black and white passengers did not, by itself, mean one race was inferior or that discrimination had occurred. Thus, the correct choice is “segregation was not the same as discrimination.”

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