If one race be inferior to the other socially, the Constitution of the United States cannot put them upon the same plane.

Henry Billings Brownwas an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1891 to 1906.
Although a respected lawyer and U.S. District Judge before ascending to the high court, Brown is harshly criticized for writing the majority opinion in Plessy v.