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Plessy v. Ferguson
A Supreme Court decision in 1896 that ruled "separate but equal" facilities for African Americans were constitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment, it had the effect of legalising segregation and led to the passage of much discriminatory legislation known as Jim Crow laws.
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