1896
For slaves in the South, the exhilaration of Emancipation was backed up by the protections and empowerment provided during Reconstruction. Those hopes, however, were quickly dashed when federal troops left the South, leaving masses of traumatized, uneducated, and desperately poor former slaves at the mercy of their beaten and enraged former masters. White supremacy enforced through violence and terror was again the status quo, and remaining hopes of real freedom were dashed in 1896 when the Supreme Court ruled in favor of legalized segregation in the Plessy v. Ferguson decision, which made “separate but equal” the law of the land.
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