The Legalisation of Segregation
Examining the role of the Supreme Court in eroding civil rights through cases like Plessy v. Ferguson.
Key Questions
- 1How did the "separate but equal" doctrine function as a tool of social control?
- 2What was the impact of the Slaughterhouse Cases on the 14th Amendment?
- 3To what extent was the judicial branch the primary obstacle to equality before 1900?
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