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"PLESSY VS. FERGUSON" by Jessica McBirney

Name:___________________________________
Period:___________________________________
Mrs. Clark
Horizontales
To formally forbid something by law
In 1896 racial ___ were incredibly high.
Plessey was ___ when he stepped into the train car.
He purchased a first-class train ticket for a "whites only car" in Louisiana.
Plessy vs Ferguson focused on ___ ___.
Convinced Plessy to buy a "whites-only" train ticket
___ but separate was acceptable and legal where racial segregation was concerned.
The Supreme Court sided with the state of Louisiana and said "separate but equal" was ___.
African Americans continued to experience ___.
The court sided ___ Plessy.
Plessy was 1/8 black by heritage, but was legally considered ___.
In 1954 the Supreme Court ___ the Plessy decision.
The Plessy decision set a ___ of segregation across the country.
___ took advantage of the Plessy decision to legally establish segregation.
Verticales
Segregation was also common in the ___.
State Plessy was arrested in
To differ in opinion
Genre
Landmark Supreme Court Case
US Supreme Court Justice who disagreed with the court's decision
An official order to do something
In the North, segregation occurred a lot here
African Americans were required to pass a test to ___ as a result of the defeat of Plessy's case.
The ___ amendment ensured equal protection under the law for all citizens.
Plessy ___ the court's decision.
Laws that segregated blacks and whites in the South
In 1896 the Supreme Court ruled that segregation was ___ as long as it was equal.