Question 4 • RMA FL-2100310-United States History Semester 1
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
Answer
A
later adopted by the Supreme Court in the Brown v. Board of Education decision.
B
similar to the views of the other justices, who ruled against Homer Plessy.
C
immediately adopted by southern states to justify the end of Jim Crow laws.
D
used to justify the “separate but equal” doctrine and continued segregation.