14) How did the Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) affect race relations in the South in the late
nineteenth century?
A)
The decision allowed Southern states to legally segregate facilities and
institutions.
B)
The court ordered Southern states to enforce the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments.
C)
The court struck down a law that would have declared all Jim Crow laws to
be unconstitutional.
D)
The decision awarded African Americans new political freedoms such as
the right to hold office.