which court ruling created the separate but equal doctrine, which upheld state laws that mandated racial separation in schools and all public accommodations
The âseparate but equalâ doctrine adopted in Plessy v. Ferguson has no place in the field of public education.â. After the 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education declared state-mandated segregation in public schools unconstitutional, the case was re-argued to determine how to correct the violations.