In Plessy v.Ferguson,the Supreme Court ruled that the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed political equality but not social equality.

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In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine, effectively ruling that the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment applied to political and civil equality, not social practices.

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