Republican's Forgotten History...

Plessy vs. Ferguson [the Separate Car Act] (Separate but Equal) 7-1 Democratic Majority held that the 14th Amendment while establishing equality in political affairs did not apply to one's color.

The Dissenting Opinion written by Republican John Harlan:
"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...In my opinion, the judgment this day rendered will, in time, prove to be quite as pernicious as the decision made by this tribunal in the Dred Scott case...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 beneficient purposes which the people of the United States had in view when they adopted the recent amendments of the Constitution."

It wasn't until 1954 that KANSAS participated in the case Brown vs the Board of Education that the "Separate but Equal" law was struck down and the notion of a colorblind society was made legal.

Freedom is Color Blind

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