The legal doctrine that permitted racial segregation in public facilities was 'separate but equal.' It was endorsed in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) and overturned in Brown v. Board of Education (1954).
Separate but equal was the legal doctrine that permitted racial segregation in public facilities, endorsed by the Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) and repudiated by Brown v. Board of Education (1954). This doctrine allowed racial segregation as long as all races were treated equally, which resulted in the establishment of Jim Crow laws and the inferior treatment of African Americans.
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