Black codes were restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished during the Civil War.
Correct answer choice is :
C) Segregation was necessary to preserve public peace.
Explanation:
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537, was a landmark judgment of the U.S. Supreme Court announced in 1896. It confirmed the constitutionality of national discrimination laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in worth a concept that came to be recognized as separate but equal. The Court governed on the idea of separate but equal and set back civil rights in the United States for decades to come.
