Question 8 • Civics and Government
Both cases concerned the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. In Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court allowed racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine; in Brown v. Board of Education, it ruled that segregation in public schools violated equal protection. So both involved interpreting the Fourteenth Amendment, even though they reached different conclusions.
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