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Plessy v. Ferguson
In this Supreme Court decision issued in 1896, the doctrine of "separate but equal" was ruled to be Constitutional. This ruling protected the South's "Jim Crow" laws for nearly 60 years before they were overturned in Brown v. the Board of Education in 1954.
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