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Because of the Plessy v. Ferguson case, state laws about racial segregation were constitutional as long facilities were equal.
Although things were suppose to be equal, Blacks were still mistreated.
Justice John Harlan, the dissenter, was the only one side with Plessy, he said "Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. ... The present decision, it may well be apprehended, will not only stimulate aggressions, more or less brutal and irritating, upon the admitted rights of colored citizens, but will encourage the belief that it is possible, by means of
state enactments, to defeat the beneficent purposes which the people of the United States had in view when they adopted the recent amendments of the Constitution."
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The Supreme Court, in the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson, held that racial segregation proclaimed to be "separate but equal" was constitutional as long as facilities were "equal". Segregation didn't constitute unlawful discrimination.