隔离但平等（Separate but equal），是种族隔离政策的一种表现形式，它试图通过为不同种族提供表面平等的设施或待遇，从而使实施空间隔离的做法合理化。
他说，“我们得出结论，在公共教育领域‘隔离但平等’的原则没有立足之地，隔离教育设施从根本上说就是不平等。”
We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place, " he said. "Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
1895年，就在最高法院对普莱西和弗格森颁布了“隔离但平等”的制度8个月前，著名的律师查尔斯·汉密尔顿·休斯敦出生了。
The distinguished lawyer Charles Hamilton Houston was born in 1895, eight months before the Supreme Court's "separate but equal" ruling in Plessy vs. Ferguson.
更为严重的是，他们翻出1952年的一份备忘录，发现他支持1896年Plessy案“隔离但平等”的裁决，而这正是种族隔离的基础。
Most damagingly, they turned up a 1952 memorandum in which he supported the “separate but equal” Plessy ruling of 1896, which had established segregation.
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