NO. It might sound like it does at first, but it doesn't. Why??? Because Brown v. Board of Education overturned it. The courts ruled in Plessy that it was okay to have separate but equal places to sleep on a train (separated by race). This was in 1896, over 100 years ago. But in 1957 the Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal is inherently unequal" That was Earl Warren writing the opinion for Brown v Board of Education.
BUT, NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND says that in the cases of gender it is okay to have single sex schools. And that was just 4 years ago!!!
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Plessy v. Ferguson was the infamous case that asserted that “equal but separate accommodations” for blacks on railroad cars did not violate the “equal protection under the laws” clause of the 14th Amendment. By defending the constitutionality of racial segregation, the Court paved the way for the repressive Jim Crow laws of the South. The lone dissenter on the Court, Justice John Marshall Harlan, protested, “The thin disguise of ‘equal’ accommodations…will not mislead anyone.”
Plessy v. Ferguson was the infamous case that asserted that “equal but separate accommodations” for blacks on railroad cars did not violate the “equal protection under the laws” clause of the 14th Amendment. By defending the constitutionality of racial segregation, the Court paved the way for the repressive Jim Crow laws of the South. The lone dissenter on the Court, Justice John Marshall Harlan, protested, “The thin disguise of ‘equal’ accommodations…will not mislead anyone.”
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