⚖️The Plessy v Ferguson case legalized racial segregation and provided legal protection for racial discrimination.
🛤️Homer Plessy, a Black shoemaker, challenged the segregation law but lost in the Supreme Court.
⚔️The decision upheld the false notion of 'separate but equal,' allowing for racial discrimination to continue.
🧑⚖️Justice John Marshall Harlan was the lone dissenter, arguing that segregation violated the constitutional rights of Black Americans.
🔎The Plessy v Ferguson case marked the start of the Jim Crow era, enforcing racial discrimination in everyday life.