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What Supreme Court decision upheld segregation laws in the United States

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plessy v. Ferguson, 163 US 537(1896) was a landmark constitutional law of the US supreme court.

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Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), was a landmark decision of theU.S. Supreme Court issued in 1896. It upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality – a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal
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