separate but equal
Jim Crow principle
Separate but equal was the legal doctrine that racial segregation was constitutional as long as facilities for Black and white Americans were nominally equivalent.
The U.S.
Supreme Court established it in *Plessy v.
Ferguson* (1896) and overturned it in *Brown v.
Board of Education* (1954).
The phrase now appears sarcastically to describe arrangements that claim equality while enforcing division: They gave us our own break room—separate but equal, right?
- Jim CrowRacial separation laws
- Plessy v. FergusonRuling allowing racial separation
- segregationForced separation by group
- water fountainsPublic drinking spouts
- slaveryOwnership of people
apartheid · inherently · doctrine · Thurgood Marshall · discrimination · Little Rock Nine · Great Migration · white flight · Fourteenth Amendment · prejudice · overturned · ruling · Brown v. Board · policy · inequality · racial integration · voting rights · racism
- civil rightsCivil Rights Act, right to life, Voting Rights Act, civil liberties, desegregation
- historical lawattainder, Justinian Code, Roman law, curtesy, Napoleonic Code
- Jim CrowJim Crow laws, segregation laws, Plessy v. Ferguson, whites only, whites only signs
- racial injusticesystemic racism, institutional racism, racial profiling, racial bias, discrimination
- School Diversityschool integration, school desegregation, diverse classrooms, mixed schools, busing
- school historypublic schooling, school reforms, college history, teacher training, school districts
separate but equalintegration
Combining into a whole
integrated · desegregation · Brown v. Board of Education · inclusive · unified
separate but equalequitable
Just and unbiased
fair · just · equal treatment · nondiscriminatory · unbiased
separate but equalintegration
Combining into a whole
inclusivity · unity in diversity · togetherness · unity · assimilation
equal, separate, separated, separation, separating, separates, inseparable, disparate, separator