How did the Supreme Court justify its ruling in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson? The court argued that the Civil Rights Act of 1875 only applied to private actions, not government actions.
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The court argued that the Equal Protection Clause in the US Constitution only applied to gender discrimination.
The court argued that the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments extended political rights to African Americans, but not social rights.
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The court argued that the violence that would result from forcing desegregation on US society would hurt the country as a whole.