What was the decision of the supreme court in plessy v. ferguson? a. separate but equal was unconstitutional b. separate but equal was constitutional c. separate but unequal was constitutional d. jim crow laws were unconstitutional

The decision of the Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson was B. SEPARATE BUT EQUAL WAS CONSTITUTIONAL.

As the representative of the 7 man-majority of the Supreme Court justices, Justice Henry Brown wrote: "A statute which implies merely a legal distinction between the white and colored races -- has no tendency to destroy the legal equality of the two races. ... The object of the Fourteenth Amendment was undoubtedly to enforce the absolute equality of the two races before the law, but in the nature of things it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social, as distinguished from political equality, or a commingling of the two races upon terms unsatisfactory to either."