The argument made by many southerners to advance the principle of "separate but equal" was that racial segregation laws were legal as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality.

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This argument was used to justify racial segregation laws in the southern United States during the period of Jim Crow laws. However, segregation laws were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, which held that separate facilities were inherently unequal.

The Argument Made by Many Southerners to Advance the Principle