Why were civil rights supporters disappointed with the Supreme Court’s 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson?

In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court upheld racial segregation by approving the doctrine of “separate but equal.” Civil rights supporters were disappointed because this ruling gave legal support to segregation rather than rejecting it. The correct choice is that the court affirmed the idea of “separate but equal.”

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