Segregation And Discrimination: Plessy Vs. Ferguson

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Segregation and Discrimination

From 1866 to 1955 there were twenty Jim Crow laws that were passed in Tennessee. There were many important laws made up such as an act that outlawed miscegenation. If you had different colored skin you had to go to a different school than the white people. All these laws were still active in 1954. There were also six laws that requiring, school segregation, two Segregation of public places for example restaurants or parties. They even had three railroad segregations and segregations on streetcars.
The Separate but equal doctrine was when they had separated colored skin people from white people but, they all had equal rights to a certain extent. This is where the case Plessy v. Ferguson came in 1896. Plessy

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