Homework Assignment – Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) and the expansion of segregation
The United States Supreme Court handed down its first decision regarding the constitutionality of the 14th Amendment Equal Protection Clause and state segregation laws, Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. Three amendments – 13th, 14th & 15th – are referred to as the Civil War Amendments as they are all passed and ratified by the so-called Radical Republicans who controlled Congress in the […]