A legal doctrine that allowed segregation of the races in public facilities as long as each race received the facility in question was known as the

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The "separate but equal" doctrine was established by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson case, which upheld racial segregation as long as the separate facilities provided to each race were purportedly equal.

A Legal Doctrine That Allowed Segregation of the Races in Public