that
A) the Fourteenth Amendment was unconstitutional.
B) private institutions were exempt from laws against racial discrimination.
C) communities could have schools for whites only, even if there were no schools for blacks.
D) racial segregation was legal if whites and blacks had equal "accommodations."
E) segregation by race in education was inherently unconstitutional.

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The ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson established the idea of "separate but equal" accommodations for different races, meaning that racial segregation was legal as long as the facilities and opportunities provided were equal for both races. This decision was later overturned by Brown v. Board of Education, which declared that segregation by race in education was inherently unconstitutional. However, at the time of Plessy v. Ferguson, option D was the prevailing interpretation of the law.

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