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.