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 rejected in public schools by Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. So the correct choice is that it took decades for segregation to be declared unconstitutional.

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