Question

According to Justice Brown Harlan, what did the railroad claim was its motivation for the decision to separate passengers? How does Harlan feel about that claim, and what does he think the real motivation was?

¨Plessy v. Ferguson¨

Answer 1

Harlan didn't agree with the railroad.

Step-by-step explanation:

The explanation of the railroad was that they wanting to give equal rights to both white and black people, but Harlan's opinion was that they actually found a nice way to separate black and white people, which was not constitutional.