CLEP US History II

Answer: A - Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) institutionalized the social doctrine of “separate but equal” at the height of the Jim Crow Era. The case had the strongest implications in the South, where business owners and state governments sought to undo Reconstruction-era integration efforts in schools, hospitals, commercial and service settings, and every other area of life. “Separate but equal” was ultimately found to perpetuate inequality and was overturned by another U.S. Supreme Court case: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, et al. (1954).