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John Howard Ferguson was an American lawyer and judge best known for his role in the landmark Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson (1896). This case upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine, effectively legitimizing state laws that enforced segregation. Ferguson's decision as a lower court judge set the stage for decades of institutionalized racial discrimination in the United States. The ruling was eventually overturned by Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.

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