In ________,the Supreme Court found that segregation of rail transportation was constitutional because separate but equal accommodations did not violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

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Plessy v. Ferguson was the case in which the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of "separate but equal" accommodations in rail transportation. This decision established the legal precedent for segregation in other areas of society and was not overturned until the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. The Civil Rights Cases, Slaughterhouse Cases, Bradwell v. Illinois all dealt with different constitutional issues and did not specifically address segregation.

In ________,The Supreme Court Found That Segregation of Rail Transportation