Mental Health Nerd | Nahedh on Instagram: "For a large part of American history, segregation was heavily normalized and enforced. This affected black people disproportionately - yet was it unconstitutional? Every attempt to challenge the constitutionality of segregation was undermined by the “separate but equal” doctrine - a legal principle that allowed segregation as long as the facilities and services provided to people of color were “equal” to those of white people. So in the late 1940s, civi