true or false? supreme court...?

Question

The Supreme Court ruling in Plessy vs. Ferguson decreed that the legislation of two separate societies – one b

The Supreme Court ruling in Plessy vs. Ferguson decreed that the legislation of two separate societies – one black and one white- were permitted as long as the two were equal

Answer 1

Justice Henry Brown wrote:

"That [the Separate Car Act] does not conflict with the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery...is too clear for argument...A statute which implies merely a legal distinction between the white and colored races -- a distinction which is founded in the color of the two races, and which must always exist so long as white men are distinguished from the other race by color -- has no tendency to destroy the legal equality of the two races...The object of the [Fourteenth A]mendment was undoubtedly to enforce the absolute equality of the two races before the law, but in the nature of things it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social, as distinguished from political equality, or a commingling of the two races upon terms unsatisfactory to either." [5]
The lone dissenter, Justice John Harlan, showed incredible foresight when he wrote

"Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law...In my opinion, the judgment this day rendered will, in time, prove to be quite as pernicious as the decision made by this tribunal in the Dred Scott case...The present decision, it may well be apprehended, will not only stimulate aggressions, more or less brutal and irritating, upon the admitted rights of colored citizens, but will encourage the belief that it is possible, by means of state enactments, to defeat the beneficient purposes which the people of the United States had in view when they adopted the recent amendments of the Constitution." [6]
****the answer to your question is true but out of context and has since been reinterpreted over other cases, the segregation of society by race, creed, color, or sexual orientation is prohibited by the constitution. read on.****
Over time, the words of Justice Harlan rang true. The Plessy decision set the precedent that "separate" facilities for blacks and whites were constitutional as long as they were "equal." The "separate but equal" doctrine was quickly extended to cover many areas of public life, such as restaurants, theaters, restrooms, and public schools. Not until 1954, in the equally important Brown v. Board of Education decision, would the "separate but equal" doctrine be struck down.

Answer 2

It could looked at that way. The desicion found that seperation did not violate the Equal Protection clause of the Consitution. By legalizing segregation, it did, in effect, create seperate societies, at least in those places that chose to do so.

Answer 3

I have no clue as to what you are talking about. Can you rephrase the question