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

In Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court upheld Louisiana’s Separate Car Act and argued that legally enforced separation did not itself violate the Fourteenth Amendment. The Court claimed segregation was not the same as discrimination, especially if the facilities were supposedly equal. Choice A states that claim; the Court did not say the Fourteenth Amendment did not apply to Southern states.

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