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What was the name of the Supreme Court case that affirmed that the separate-but-equal doctrine applied to a person of Chinese ancestry?
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The Supreme Court case that affirmed that the separate-but-equal doctrine applied to a person of Chinese ancestry was "Lum v. Rice" (1927). The court held that Miss Lum was not denied equal protection of the law because she was given the opportunity to attend a school which "receive[d] only children of the brown, yellow or black races". However, Chinese-Americans in the Mississippi Delta began to identify themselves