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While the details are rather lengthy here (see, for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plessy_v._Ferguson for a summary), how would one prevent the "separate but equal" doctrine and thus Jim Crow from becoming established? Note that it was very rapidly recognized as being followed only as far as the letter of the law was concerned, as evinced by this 1904 John McCutcheon cartoon: