“…that all railway companies carrying passengers in their coaches in this State shall provide equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races by providing two or more passenger coaches for each passenger train, or by dividing the passenger coaches by a partition so as to secure separate accommodations:
- excerpt from the decision Plessy v. Ferguson
What developed throughout the South as result of the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson?
A) poll taxes and voting restrictions
B) "Jim Crow" laws that supported segregation
C) overturned laws that legalized segregation
D) Black codes whose purpose was to restrict African-Americans
The NAACP argued that Plessy v. Ferguson was a violation of which amendment that offers equal protection under the Constitution?
A) 13th
B) 14th
C) 15th
D) 16th
