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Today in legal history...
Monday, May 18, 2009
Supreme Court upheld segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson
On May 18, 1896, the US Supreme Court ruled in
Plessy v. Ferguson
that racially separate but equal facilities are constitutional.
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