Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court issued in 1896. It upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality – a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal".
In the case of Plessi v. Ferguson (1896), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the doctrine of Division, but the equality of citizens and which for half a century delayed the process of obtaining black citizens of the United States equal with white civil rights. This decision gave the legal basis for racial segregation in the USA, forcing black Americans to study in schools only for blacks, to use special, reserved for them public places.
