Plessy Dissent

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Knowing that the court had made a terrible mistake, Judge Harlin wrote his dissent. By writing this dissent Judge Harlin wanted to make it very clear that he did not agree with the decision that the court had come up with. He used the fourteenth amendment to say "there shall be no discrimination against them by law due to the color of their skin." "Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens."

Without a doubt in my mind do I believe that Harlin was ridiculed for this. In the time 1896, racial segregation was thriving. Now that the idea of separate but equal was legal in the eyes of the court, something had to be done. Limiting one race to lower means of survival was something that did not sit right with Harlin and a feeling he wanted to change.

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