Henry Billings Brown wrote the opinion for the 7-1 majority in this Supreme Court case, and Albion Tourgée served as the plaintiff's legal representative.
Henry Billings Brown wrote the opinion for the 7-1 majority in this Supreme Court case, and Albion Tourgée served as the plaintiff's legal representative. John Marshall Harlan's dissent concurred with Tourgée's (*) 14th Amendment interpretations. This case's plaintiff worked for the Committee of Citizens and was arrested for boarding a whites only railroad car bound for Covington, Louisiana, despite being one-eighth African-American. For 10 points, name this 1896 Supreme Court case that affirmed Jim Crow Laws and established the "separate but equal" doctrine, later overturned by Brown v. Board of Education.
Henry Billings Brown wrote the opinion for the 7-1 majority in this Supreme Court case, and Albion Tourgée served as the plaintiff's legal representative.
{Plessy} v. Ferguson (or Ferguson v. {Plessy})