Plessy v. Ferguson said it was constitutional to have separate but equal public facilities for whites and blacks, basically legalizing segregation. This ruling remained constitutional until the Brown v. Board of Education decision overruled this and outlawed segregation in public facilities.
Preliminaries. Austria, Prussia, Russia, and Great Britain, the four powers that were chiefly instrumental in the overthrow of Napoleon, had concluded a special alliance among themselves with the Treaty of Chaumont, on March 9, 1814, a month before Napoleon's first abdication.
