5/24/2023 0 Comments Justice john marshall harlanJustice Brown stated that the Fourteenth Amendment on its face established absolute equality for the races before the law. Brown, the Supreme Court’s majority upheld the Louisiana law, which required that all railroads operating in the state provide “equal but separate accommodations.” Basing its reasoning on the separate-but-equal doctrine, the Court gave a stamp of approval to all similar state laws. In a 7-1 decision authored by Justice Henry B. Though he could have passed as white, he made sure that the conductor knew his racial heritage when he refused to sit in the Jim Crow car. Plessy was a light-skinned octoroon, or one-eighth African-American. Ferguson, 1896 (Excerpts)īackground: In 1896 the Supreme Court decided a case in which Homer Plessy challenged Louisiana’s Jim Crow law requiring separate railroad passenger cars for African Americans. John Marshall Harlan, Dissent from Plessy v.
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