Read this excerpt from the dissenting opinion in a supreme court case.if a white man and a black man choose to occupy the same p
ublic conveyance on a public highway, it is their right to do so, and no government, proceeding alone on grounds of race, can prevent it without infringing the personal liberty of each.1which case is the excerpt most likely from?
A dissenting opinion in a case is one that goes against the majority opinion.
In this case, the excerpt is likely from the case <em>Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)</em>. This was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court. It held that segregated facilities were constitutional as long as the facilities were equal in quality ("separate but equal"). The only dissent was written by Justice John Marshall Harlan. The decision is widely regarded as one of the worst in history, and it has been <em>de facto</em> overruled.
