The Separate but Equal laws was a legal doctrine that was a constitutional justification in the United States. These laws had permitted the racial segregation to the Fourteenth Amendment in the United States that had guaranteed the equal rights and protections to all the citizens and towards other federal civil rights. After the Separate but equal laws were taken to court and justified they also created the Plessy v. Ferguson laws in the year of 1896. The Supreme Court had ruled the separation of races. The Plessy v. Ferguson was a decision to justify and validate the facility in publics between whites and blacks. Even though the majority of the Supreme Court denied the laws that were being implied to the majority of the blacks, they still contended the law that would separate the two races in the public. The Plessy v. Ferguson Laws were considered a Louisiana law in the year 1890, it provided the separate railway carriages of both races, whites and …show more content…
These laws actually started out in the State of Tennessee between the years of 1866 and 1955, they had enacted 20 Jim Crow laws. In these laws that were enacted, they included six laws that required the segregation at schools, four of them were outlawed miscegenation, three of them where the segregation on the railroads, two were the segregation on the public accommodations, and one of them was the segregations on the streetcars. The Jim Crow Laws were the state and the local laws that enforced a racial segregation on the Southern part of the United States. These laws were enacted right after the Reconstruction period. These laws had actually continued on being laws till 1965. The Jim Crow laws mainly affected those who were in school and at work, for example the black students were to be separated from whites during class and other part of the day. The Jim Crow laws were a representation of the anti-black racism legitimization towards people. Many Christians Ministers back in the 1880’s had believed that God was a part of the racial segregation. The Christian Ministers had said that the