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  2. Separate but equal - Wikipedia

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    Although Brown overturned the doctrine of "separate but equal" in institutions of public education, it would be almost ten more years before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 would prohibit racial discrimination in facilities that were deemed public accommodations (transportation, hotels, etc.). Additionally, in 1967, under Loving v.

  3. Plessy v. Ferguson - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 December 2024. 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case on racial segregation 1896 United States Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court of the United States Argued April 13, 1896 Decided May 18, 1896 Full case name Homer A. Plessy v. John H. Ferguson Citations 163 U.S. 537 (more) 16 S. Ct. 1138; 41 L ...

  4. List of landmark court decisions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896) Segregated facilities for blacks and whites are constitutional under the doctrine of separate but equal. As long as the separate facilities are equal in quality, then such separation is not unconstitutional. (De facto overruled by Brown v. Board of Education (1954)) Missouri ex rel. Gaines v.

  5. Everything you know about Brown v. Board of Education is wrong

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    Future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall argued the case on behalf of the plaintiffs as part of the NAACP Legal Defense Funds’ effort to overturn the 60-year-old “separate but equal ...

  6. Racial segregation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1875, but it was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1883 in the Civil Rights Cases. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), so long as "separate but equal" facilities were provided, a requirement that was rarely met. [4]

  7. Brown v. Board of Education - Wikipedia

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    Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), [1] was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.

  8. List of landmark African-American legislation - Wikipedia

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    Sweatt v. Painter (1950) - challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine. Henderson v. United States (1950) - abolished segregation in dining cars. Brown v. Board of Education - composed of four cases arising from states and a related federal case arising from the District of Columbia overturning segregation in schools and the separate-but-equal ...

  9. Simkins v. Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital - Wikipedia

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    Simkins v. Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital, 323 F.2d 959 (4th Cir. 1963), [1] was a federal case, reaching the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, which held that "separate but equal" racial segregation in publicly funded hospitals was a violation of equal protection under the United States Constitution.