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'''Separate but equal''' is a type of racial [[segregation]] in which two [[race]] are provided with segregated services which are ideally equal in quality. However, as [[judge]] [[Robert Bork]] put it - you could never have separation and [[equality]]. Therefore, the policy universally violated the [[14th Amendment]] of the [[U.S. Constitution]]. Despite this, it was deemed [[constitutional]] in the [[Plessy v. Ferguson]] court case in 1896. The Plessy decision was overturned in 1954 by the [[Supreme Court]] decision in [[Brown v. Board of Education]].<ref>http://www.historicaldocuments.com/BrownvBoardofEducation.htm</ref> In practice separate but equal means inferior facilities for non-whites.

'''Separate but equal''' is a type of racial [[segregation]] in which two [[race]]s are provided with segregated services which are ideally equal in quality. However, as [[judge]] [[Robert Bork]] put it – one could never have separation and [[equality]]. Therefore, the policy universally violated the [[14th Amendment]] of the [[U.S. Constitution]]. Despite this, it was deemed [[constitutional]] in the [[Plessy v. Ferguson]] court case in 1896. The Plessy decision was overturned in 1954 by the [[Supreme Court]] decision in [[Brown v. Board of Education]].<ref>http://www.historicaldocuments.com/BrownvBoardofEducation.htm '''(note: link is dead)'''</ref> In practice separate but equal means inferior facilities for non-whites.

 

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