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Photographer: Richard E. Miller
Taken: July 14, 2009
Caption: Plessy vs. Ferguson - interior Louisiana State Museum panel
Additional Description: describing the Louisiana Supreme Court's landmark decision (rendered in the Cabildo building in 1892 and subsequently upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court) sanctioning the state's laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal" - a hypocritical policy of discrimination that remained in effect in many states until the mid-20th century.
Submitted: August 10, 2009, by Richard E. Miller of Oxon Hill, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p73341
File Size: 1.512 Megabytes

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