jul 2, 1896 - Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
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Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537, was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the Court ruled that 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".Added to timeline:
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jul 2, 1896
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~ 129 years ago