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What 1896 US Supreme Court decision made segregation legal and established the separate but equal doctrine?

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What 1896 US Supreme Court decision made segregation legal and established the separate but equal doctrine?

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represented the South’s reaction to, and contravention of, the 13th and 14th Amendments. The Court’s decision gave tacit permission to the establishment of Jim Crow laws, which violated the civil rights of African-Americans in a way not anticipated by the Constitution.