Facts
The decision itself involved five consolidated cases coming from different lower courts in which Black Americans had sued theaters, hotels and transit companies that had refused them admittance or excluded them from "white only" facilities.
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“Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man.”
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“The dog did nothing in the night-time.”
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“How many facts we have fallen through
And still the old façade glimmers there,
A mirage, but permanent. We must first trick the idea”
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