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Originally Posted by Kasept
Well, separate but equal was actually the US court systems' explanation for upholding segregation in the American school system, (see Plessy v. Ferguson, c. 1898), until the landmark reversal in Brown v. Board of Education in 1956. But you've got the right idea. As Steve Crist said, every woman remotely connected to racing has ridiculed this slapdash farce.
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the actual wording in plessy was "equal but seperate".
one of the great mysteries how that got reversed in common usage.
03-02-2008, 08:33 PM
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