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.” The views Harlan expressed in this quotation were

Harlan argued that the Constitution did not permit laws to divide citizens by race. Although he was writing in dissent and the Court upheld segregation in Plessy, the principle he expressed later aligned with Brown v. Board of Education, which ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. The other justices did not share Harlan’s view in Plessy, and his statement did not justify continued segregation.

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