Question

The 1896 supreme court ruling that approved "separate but equal" accommodations for blacks and whites as a reasonable use of state power was ________.

Answer 1

It was Plessy v. Ferguson. Plessy v. Ferguson upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal" and was a landmark constitutional law case of the 1896 US Supreme Court. It was the result of 1892 incident where Homer Plessy, an African-American train passenger  refused to sit in a Jim Crow car.