The "separate but equal" doctrine of segregation started with an 1896 Supreme Court decision. The case was brought by a man who was one-eighth black, after being asked to leave a "whites only" train car when it was discovered that he was legally considered "colored." The name of this famous case is ______.

A. Brown v. Board of Education
B. Jim Crow v. the United States
C. Plessy v. Ferguson
D. Love v. Virginia


Answer: C

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