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Patrick Leahy: “There is nothing equal by separate and we know that today.”

On the recordJune 30, 2010
There is nothing equal by separate and we know that today.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Leahy critiques the flawed nature of the Plessy v. Ferguson decision.

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