U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. The case stemmed from an 1892 incident in which African-American train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a car for blacks.
The <span>Roosevelt Corollary was an addition to the Monroe Doctrine, issued by President Monroe, which stated that any further encroachment by European countries in the Americas would be seen as an act of aggression. </span>
Joseph McCarthy, of Red Scare fame
