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Homer A. Plessy v. John H. Ferguson was a landmark case held in Spring of 1896. This is when the "separate but equal" doctrine came into play. The case determined that public facilities and public places could be segregated as long as the segregated areas were equal in quality as of those that weren't segregated. The case all started in 1892 when Homer Plessy violated Louisiana's separate car act which was basically a segregated train car. His case went on to the Louisiana Supreme Court and then to the United States Supreme Court where he lost his case because the Louisiana separate car act did not violate the 14th Amendment as Plessy's lawyers claimed and fought for.  

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Answer:Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. The case stemmed from an 1892 incident in which African American train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a car for blacks. Rejecting Plessy’s argument that his constitutional rights were violated, the Supreme Court ruled that a law that “implies merely a legal distinction” between whites and blacks was not unconstitutional. As a result, restrictive Jim Crow legislation and separate public accommodations based on race became commonplace.Plessy v. Ferguson was important because it essentially established the constitutionality of racial segregation. As a controlling legal precedent, it prevented constitutional challenges to racial segregation for more than half a century until it was finally overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in Brownv. Board of Education of Topeka (1954).  

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