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William McKinley won the 1896 presidential election defeating William J. Bryan. In the 1896 presidential election William McKinley received 271 electoral votes and William Bryan received 176 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were McKinley 7,108,480 and Bryan 6,511,495.
Plessy v. Ferguson, (1896)The "separate but equal" doctrine derived from the decision in the US Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson, (1896), delivered on May 18, 1896.The Plessy decision was later overturned by Brown v. Board of Education, (1954).Case Citation:Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 US 537 (1896)
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 US 537 (1896)The conflict was initiated by Homer Plessy's arrest in New Orleans, Louisiana, on June 7, 1892, and ended with the US Supreme Court's decision on May 18, 1896, nearly four yearslater.
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The decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, (1896) affirmed the "separate but equal" doctrine.
The southern states and their white citizensbelieved they benefited from the Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, (1896) because the Court's decision allowed them to legally maintain racial segregation like they had under slavery. Many Caucasians believed they were superior to African-Americans, and preferred not to intermingle with people of other ethnic backgrounds.
The policy stemming from the 1896 Plessy v Ferguson Supreme Court decision was "separate but equal," which allowed for racial segregation as long as equal facilities were provided for both races. It resulted in the institutionalization of racial discrimination and the denial of civil rights to African Americans, leading to decades of racial inequality and oppression. This policy was eventually overturned by the 1954 Brown v Board of Education decision.
Ferguson refers to John H. Ferguson, who was the judge presiding over the case Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. He was the judge in the Louisiana State Supreme Court. The case ultimately led to the Supreme Court decision that upheld racial segregation and the "separate but equal" doctrine.
No. Not in 1896.
(1896) * "Seperate but equal" An 1896 Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of segregation laws, saying that as long as blacks were provided with "separate but equal" facilities, these laws did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment. This decision provided legal justification for the Jim Crow system until the 1950s.