Abstract
Rereading Plessy v. Ferguson 1 invites reflection on historic and ongoing racial segregation in the United States. This essay pursues an enriched understanding of what was — and is — wrong with racial segregation by developing a diagnosis of segregation as an infringement of basic liberties. Justice Harlan’s dissent in Plessy criticized the requirement of segregation that blacks and whites sit in separate train cars in exactly these terms: “The fundamental objection ... to the statute is that it interferes with the personal freedom of citizens.”2
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