HURRR! Read this example of a Georgia law.

All persons licensed to conduct a restaurant, shall serve either white people exclusively or colored people exclusively and shall not sell to the two races within the same room or serve the two races anywhere under the same license.

–Law from the state of Georgia,

Late 1800s

Which of the following events officially legalized nationwide laws like the one described in the passage?

the Tenure of Office Act

the end of Reconstruction

the Civil Rights Act of 1866

Plessy v. Ferguson