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- Plessy V. Ferguson (1896)
- U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the Court ruled, despite a vigorous dissent by Justice John Harlan, that "separate but equal" facilities for blacks were constitutional, which remained the rule until Brown v. Board of Education (1954).
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