What was the outcome of the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson?

The outcome of the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson was that it upheld racial segregation, establishing a legal foundation for the "separate but equal" doctrine. This ruling, issued in 1896, allowed for the maintenance of segregated facilities for Black and white citizens, arguing that as long as the separate facilities were equal in quality, segregation did not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

This case significantly impacted American society by legitimizing laws that enforced racial segregation and discrimination, particularly in education, transportation, and public accommodations, leading to decades of systemic inequality and the establishment of Jim Crow laws in the southern United States. The precedent set by this ruling was not overturned until Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, which declared that separate educational facilities were inherently unequal.