单词 | separate but equal |
释义 | > as lemmasseparate but equal e. separate but equal: asserting the equality of races under racial segregation. U.S. ΚΠ 1776 T. Jefferson in Dunlop's Pennsylvania Packet 8 July 1/1 When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one People..to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them. 1890 Louisiana Acts CXI. 152 An Act..requiring all railway companies..to provide equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races.] 1892 F. W. Gage Negro Probl. in U.S. iii. 92 If railroad companies care to furnish separate but equal accommodations on equal terms to each race, no objection need be made. 1915 U.S. Rep. (Supreme Court) 235 160 It was not an infraction of the Fourteenth Amendment for a State to require separate, but equal, accommodations for the two races. 1948 Time 9 Feb. 75/1 In Missouri, where a ‘separate but equal’ law school has had its longest test. 1954 U.S. Rep. (Supreme Court) 347 495 We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. < as lemmas |
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