Answer:
b. The separate but equal mandate
Explanation:
The "separate but equal" mandate was legislation that allowed and promoted racial segregation on the United States, especially in the Southern states, on the basis that the facilities, services, public accommodations, housing, medical care, education, employment, and transportation provided to each race were equal, and therefore the mandate did not violate the right of equal protection of the laws to all people guaranteed in the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In reality, however, segregated facilities of African Americans were rarely equal to those of white Americans.
