As a result of the Plessy v. Ferguson ruling,

In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court upheld racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. That ruling allowed segregation to continue for decades; it was not declared unconstitutional in public schools until Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. So it took decades for segregation to be declared unconstitutional.

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