Plessy v.Ferguson effectively halted full implementation of the Fourteenth
Amendment for seventy years.

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Plessy v. Ferguson, a Supreme Court decision in 1896, upheld racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine. This ruling allowed for segregation and discrimination to continue, effectively undoing some of the progress made by the Fourteenth Amendment. It was not until the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s that segregation was challenged and eventually abolished with landmark cases like Brown v. Board of Education.

Plessy VFerguson Effectively Halted Full Implementation of the Fourteenth