The key figures in Plessy v. Ferguson were: Homer Plessy, a mixed-race American who was arrested for sitting in a train car reserved for white passengers under Louisiana’s Separate Car Act; Associate Justice Henry Billings Brown, who wrote the U.S. Supreme Court’s majority opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson; and John Marshall Harlan, who wrote the Court’s only dissenting opinion.
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