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Tag: May 18 1896May 18 – Plessy v. FergusonIssued on May 18, 1896, the ruling in this Supreme Court case upheld a Louisiana state law that allowed for "equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races." It was not until the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas and congressional civil rights acts of the 1950s and 1960s that systematic segregation under state law was ended. Posted by Darren Cole on May 18, 2011, under Documents, May. |
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