He implies that blacks opposing this would to "revert to the separate-but-equal doctrine that until 1954 gave constitutional sanction to second-class citizenship for the race."

Segregation was an unfortunate reality in the United States, and the separate-but-equal doctrine only served to continue this tradition of inequality.

Dr. Davis and Mr. Marshall would work again in the legal battle leading to the court's unanimous 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which ended the separate-but-equal doctrine for the public schools.

Mr. Bush exclaimed, showing off his familiarity with the 1896 Supreme Court decision that instituted a separate-but-equal doctrine to permit racial segregation in public facilities.

In the mock Congressional debate, they have to decide whether the 'separate-but-equal' doctrine can be applied to gender if it doesn't apply to race.

The judges thus acquiesced in Virginia's revival of the separate-but-equal doctrine long ago discredited for remedying racial injustice.

I have long regarded that 1954 decision (which laid to rest once and for all the pernicious "separate-but-equal" doctrine) as one of the Court's finest hours.

Mr. Perlman agreed, and Mr. Elman wrote a brief attacking the separate-but-equal doctrine that prevailed under the Supreme Court's Plessy v. Ferguson ruling in 1896.

The justices did not rule on the constitutionality of the separate-but-equal doctrine, but the dining car case was a portent.

Rehnquist's 1952 memo, entitled "A Random Thought on the Segregation Cases", defended the "separate-but-equal" doctrine.