Your answer would be TRUE
Answer: B. It was the first time that the Supreme Court ruled on the 14th amendment, and its interpretation opened the door for racial discrimination and segregation well into the 20th century.
Explanation:
The Slaughterhouse Cases, simply ruled that the privileges and the immunities of a citizen which were protected according to the Fourteenth Amendment were only limited to what was in the United States Constitution and that the rights that were given by individual states were not included.
The judge's ruling simply made the Fourteenth Amendment useless as this led to racial discrimination and segregation.
From 1882-1968, 4,743 lynchings occurred in the United States. Of these people that were lynched 3,446 were black. The blacks lynched accounted for 72.7% of the people lynched. These numbers seem large, but it is known that not all of the lynchings were ever recorded. Out of the 4,743 people lynched only 1,297 white people were lynched. That is only 27.3%. Many of the whites lynched were lynched for helping the black or being anti lynching and even for domestic crimes. Most of lunching occurred in the south.
