History A-Level
The ‘separate but equal’ doctrine and its consequences
What The ‘separate but equal’ doctrine and its consequences means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of The ‘separate but equal’ doctrine and its consequences
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A doctrine allowing states to segregate facilities if they claimed to provide equal ones, used to justify unequal facilities because courts rarely enforced genuine equality.
Topics that use The ‘separate but equal’ doctrine and its consequences
- Paper 3, Option 39.1: Civil rights and race relations in the USA, 1850–2009 - 2 The triumph of ‘Jim Crow’, 1883–c1900 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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- Judicial interpretation and civil rights
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- The legal entrenchment of white supremacy in the South
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- Federalism and the scope of the Fourteenth Amendment
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