Antedatings in the Yale Book of Quotations -- 14 : Separate But Equal

[Fred Shapiro]

separate but equal (OED 1892)

1889 _Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Mississippi_ (1890) 66: 668
How is commerce between the states hampered or burdened by requiring the
appellant to provide separate but equal accommodations _in the state for
passengers within the state?_

Fred Shapiro


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