Separate but Equal Doctrine in the United States
Separate but Equal Doctrine
United States Constitution
According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled SEPARATE BUT EQUAL DOCTRINEThe first type of racial segregation law to spread over the South was the “Jim Crow car” law, requiring blacks and whites to be seated separately in railroad passenger cars. When the Supreme Court held such a law valid in plessy v. ferguson (1896) , the majority concluded
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