The court held that segregation was permitted if facilities were equal. The court interpreted the Fourteenth Amendment as "not intended to give Negroes social equality
but only political and civil equality"
-Plessyv. Ferguson (1896)
The court heard arguments about whether segregation itself was a violation of the Equal
Protection Clause and found that it was, commenting that "in the field of public
education the doctrine of separate but equal' has no place Segregation is a denial of
the equal protection of the laws."
-Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
Use the text to answer the question.
1. Part A Which generalization can be made based upon the Supreme Court cases Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v.
Board of Education of Topeka?
O The Constitution is subject to changing interpretations by the Supreme Court.
O Supreme Court decisions are accepted without public dissent.
Ostate court judges agree that social policies are best left to Congress.
Equal protection has consistently been defined by the Supreme Court.