WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. The case stemmed from an 1892 incident in which African American train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a car for Black people.

Detailed explanation-2: -Read the quotation from Justice John Marshall Harlan in his Plessy v. Ferguson dissent in 1896. “Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.” later adopted by the Supreme Court in the Brown v.