Plessy v. Ferguson was overturned in 1954 when the Supreme Court decided that

In Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause. This overturned the “separate but equal” principle associated with Plessy v. Ferguson, at least in public education. Therefore, the correct choice is “racial segregation was unconstitutional.”

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