To comply with the Jim Crow laws, Milton, the owner of a chain of restaurants, reserves the restaurants on Wiley Street for whites and the restaurants on Mosray Street for blacks. All his restaurants provide the same quality of food, services, and facilities. In this scenario, Milton observes the _____.

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Milton is observing the separate-but-equal doctrine, which was a legal doctrine in United States constitutional law that justified and permitted racial segregation as long as the separate facilities were of equal quality. This doctrine was established by the 1896 Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson but was later overturned by Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.

To Comply with the Jim Crow Laws, Milton, the Owner