Laws stemming from which of the following landmark court decisions upheld the separate yet equal doctrine continued to be used to segregate Whites from African Americans and other minorities in the early twentieth century

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Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) is the landmark Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine. This decision was used to justify segregating public facilities for African Americans and other minorities from Whites, leading to widespread institutionalized racial segregation in the United States until it was overturned by Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.

Laws Stemming from Which of the Following Landmark Court Decisions