An 1896 United States Supreme Court decision holding that racial segregation laws did not violate the Constitution so long as the separate facilities provided for each race were equal in quality, the doctrine known as separate but equal. It supplied the legal foundation for segregated public schooling across the American South until the Supreme Court overturned it in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.
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Key ProvisionHeld that racially segregated public facilities, including schools, were constitutional so long as they were equal in quality, establishing the separate but equal doctrine. 1 Enacted / Adopted Year Cross-Tradition Connections
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Wikimedia FoundationPlessy v. Ferguson, lead sectionQuote, Plessy v. Ferguson, lead section
racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as 'separate but equal'.
1. Wikipedia
Wikimedia FoundationPlessy v. Ferguson pageQuote, Plessy v. Ferguson page
a doctrine that came to be known as separate but equal
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