Question

In plessy v. ferguson (1896) the court declared that states could continue to enforce racial segregation as long as the facilities provided for each race were equal. this meant:

Answer 1

This means that public services such as bathrooms or water fountains could still be whites only or blacks only but they had to be equal in quality. (i.e the bathroom for whites only could not be very clean and fancy while the blacks only bathroom was dirty).