In the 1896 case of Plessy v.Ferguson,the Supreme Court held that segregation laws governing public accommodations such as railroads and public schools were constitutional based on the Court's finding that

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The Supreme Court held that segregation laws were constitutional because separate public facilities were provided for each race and no qualitative difference existed between the two racially-based sets of public accommodations. This decision established the "separate but equal" doctrine, which allowed for legalized segregation in the United States until it was overturned in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case.

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