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This excerpt is from a $1904$ speech by U$.$S$.$ Representative Edward Mocrell.

$1$ Many millions of our people assume, without thinking, that negro sulfrage was forced upon the South by the fourteenth and fiteenth amendments as an act of hostily and in a spirit of eevenge. The exact opposite is true. These amendments were added to the Censt bution in the interest of harmony and for the purpose of perfecting the real purpose of the thirteenth amendment. Here is the state of things: Slavery had been abolished. The whites of the South could not concelve of the possibility that the free negro would work without phyical compulsion....

$2$ black race to semi$-$slavery, which would keep in industrialy and politically in the Dower of the former masters.

This passage diccusses two U$.$S$.$ Supreme Court cases.

$3$ After Reconstruction, many Southem stabes passed laws to force racial Aegregation. Some people epposed these isws. They felt segregation vegregation, Some people epposed these violated the Reconstruction amendments.

$4$ In the case of Messy v$.$ Ferguson, the Supreme Cout nuled that segregation in not violate the amendments. The court explalned, "The object of the amendment was undoubtedly to enforce the absolvte equality of the two roces before the lam, but, in the nature of thingh, it could not have been. races before the isan, but, in the nature of bingl, is could not have been intistingulshed from political, equaliky....

$5$ However, the Jutices of the Supreme Court change over time. In the later case of Arown $v.$ Aoard of Education of Topeka, Chlet Juvice Warren caplained the position of the Court, He explained that segregation did viglase the amendiments. He stated that people who are the victims of vegregation "are, by reasion of the segregation complained of$,$ deprived of tegregabion "are, brotection of the laws guaranteed by the fourteenth Amendment." This landmark case led to the abolinion of legal segresation in public. facilites.

Which statement explains the relationship between the Plessy v$.$ ferguson case

The Plessy case served as the legal basis for the Arown case.

The Brown case set the legal precedent for the Plessy case.

The Plessy case set the standard affirmed in the Brown case.

The brown case overtumed the ruling is the Plessy cast.