Question

When the Supreme Court declared separate but equal constitutional, each state had individual authority to initiate that as law .

a. True
b. False

Answer 1

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The phrase was derived from a Louisiana law of 1890, although the law actually used the phrase "equal but separate." The doctrine was confirmed in the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision of 1896, which allowed state-sponsored segregation.

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