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- ▪ racially segregated but ostensibly ensuring equal opportunities to all races
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Legal doctrine used for racial segregation in the United States
Separate but equal was a legal doctrine in United States constitutional law, according to which racial segregation did not necessarily violate the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which nominally guaranteed "equal protection" under the law to all people. Wikipedia