The case was ruled in favor of Ferguson. The vote was 8 to 1. Once again, the lone dissenter was Justice Harlan. He claimed that the Constitution was colored-blind and that separate could not be equal. The majority opinion said that,"the assumption that the enforced separation of the races stamps the colored race with a badge of inferiority is false." Basically, they said that just because they were separated, did not mean that one race was given a preference over the other.
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