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FROM 1896 SUPREME COURT DECISION IN PLESSY V. FERGUSON: “...we
cannot say that a law which authorizes or even requires the separation
of the two races in public conveyances is unreasonable, or more
obnoxious to the fourteenth amendment than the acts of congress
requiring separate schools for colored children in the District
of Columbia, the constitutionality of which does not seem to have
been questioned, or the corresponding acts of state legislatures...”
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