The "separate but equal" doctrine was legally established by
A) states.
B) Plessy v. Ferguson.
C) Brown v. Board of Education.
D) the Missouri Compromise.
E) the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution.

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The "separate but equal" doctrine was legally established by the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. This case upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation as long as separate facilities for different races were equal in quality. It was not until the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 that the "separate but equal" doctrine was overturned as unconstitutional.

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