“…that all railway companies carrying passengers in their coaches in this state shall provide equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races by providing two or more passenger coaches for each passenger train, or by dividing the passenger coaches by a partition so as to secure separate accommodations:

- excerpt from the decision plessy v. ferguson

what developed throughout the south as result of the decision in plessy v. ferguson?
a) poll taxes and voting restrictions
b) "jim crow" laws that supported segregation
c) overturned laws that legalized segregation
d) black codes whose purpose was to restrict african-americans

the naacp argued that plessy v. ferguson was a violation of which amendment that offers equal protection under the constitution?
a) 13th
b) 14th
c) 15th
d) 16th

1) The correct option to the first question is option B: "Jim Crow" laws that supported segregation.

After the Plessy v. Ferguson decision, segregation became stronger than before. There were laws and social customs known as "Jim Crow" that allowed public places like trains, buses, restaurants, schools, theaters to be segregated.

Option C is also correct because after the Plessy v. Ferguson decision, black people also had to pay poll taxes and had voting restrictions.

This decision remained unchanged until Brown v. Board Education in 1954 aand the Civil Rights Act in 1964.

2) The correct option is B.

The Plessy V. Ferguson decision violated the 14th Amendment, which granted all citizens "equal protection of the laws"

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