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Separate but equal is a set phrase (or idiom) that was commonly used in the United States to describe systems of segregation giving different "colored only" facilities or services for blacks, with the declaration that the quality of each group's public facilities were (supposedly) to remain equal. The phrase was derived from a Louisiana law of 1890[1].

It was also the title of an anonymous article written in 1869, detailing how people had equal rights but were separated because of race

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