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"Separate But Equal"
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| On May 6, 1896, in the decision of Plessy v. Ferguson, the US Supreme Court ruled that it was permissible to maintain separate facilities for Negroes - provided those facilities were equivalent to those for Whites. |
| This Supreme Court decision provided the legal basis for continued segregation of the nation's school systems. It was not until the decision of Brown v. Board of Education, in 1954, that this decision was reversed. |
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