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Categories: Race-related case law in the United States, United States Supreme Court cases, Legal history of Louisiana, United States equal protection case law, All Wikipedia articles written in American English
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Plessy v. Ferguson  Plessy v ferguson  163 U.S. 537  16 S. Ct. 1138  1896 U.S. LEXIS 3390
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Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that 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". Wikipedia
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Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that 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". Wikipedia
163 U.S. 537, a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of the "separate but equal" segregation doctrine Wikipedia Disambiguation
United States Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation Wikidata
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United States
AUTHOR
Henry Billings Brown
John Marshall Harlan
COUNTRY
United States
COURT
Supreme Court
DEFENDANT
John Howard Ferguson
HAS EFFECT
separate but equal
MAJORITY OPINION BY
Henry Billings Brown
PLAINTIFF
Homer Plessy
PUBLISHED IN
United States Reports
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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163 U.S. 537, 16 S. Ct. 1138, 1896 U.S. LEXIS 3390, 41 L. Ed. 256, Homer A. Plessy v. John H. Ferguson, Homer Adolph Plessy v. The State of Louisiana

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