Plessy v. Ferguson is a legal case decided in 1896 in which the U.S. Supreme Court put forward the controversial “separate but equal” doctrine, according to which laws mandating racial segregation (generally of African Americans and white Americans) in public accommodations and services were constitutional provided that the separate facilities for each race were equal.
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