Justice Brown’s majority opinion claimed that laws requiring segregation did not necessarily imply the inferiority of either race to the other. He compared this to:
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Correct answer: The separation of the sexes in public places
The Court frequently compared racial segregation to the separation of men and women in public facilities. They argued that if the separation of sexes was constitutional and did not imply inferiority, the same logic applied to the separation of races.
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