the "separate but equal" doctrine.
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The Supreme Court ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson is what provided constitutional justification for segregation. Segregation in public schools was outlawed in another Supreme Court ruling in 1954.
The 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation in public accommodations under the "separate-but-equal" doctrine. The Supreme Court voted 7-1 (with one abstention). Justice John M. Harlan cast the dissenting vote.The doctrine was overturned 58 years later by the 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education.
As far as we know, there were 6 known, examples of the Ferguson rifle. All known Rifles are kept by museum armories. There are no Ferguson rifles in private hands.
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Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896)The Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson, (1896) was a landmark case that upheld a Louisiana statute allowing for "equal but separate" facilities. The facilities in question were railway cars which were divided by partition and offered the same accommodations to white and "colored" races. It was found that these provisions were not in conflict with the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.