Consider the opinion of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney of the United States Supreme Court in Dred Scott v. Sandford in 1857, the majority opinion of...

Consider the opinion of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney of the United States Supreme Court in Dred Scott v. Sandford in 1857, the majority opinion of Justice Henry B. Brown in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, and the opinion of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in the 1927 Supreme Court decision in Buck v. Bell. In those three opinions, does it seem to you that they reflected a commitment by the Supreme Court to equality of Americans?