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Search this Guide Search. Plessy v. Supreme Court makes a critical court decision regarding racial segregation in rail cars. Dred Scott v. Sandford , 60 U. Rothstein argues that the racial residential segregation we live with today is de jure, not de facto, and that therefore a powerful federal response is constitutionally required to remediate it.
Civil Rights Cases , U. Cruikshank , 92 U. Charles Black argues that Slaughter-House decision was the worst Supreme Court opinion in American jurisprudence. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka , U. The decision in Brown could have easily gone the other way. Three things are clear: First, the clause imposes some kind of duty having to do with equality. Second, that which must be equalized is denominated as protection. Brown , U. Alabama that the freedom of association is protected by the First Amendment because it is encompassed in the freedom of speech.
NAACP v. Ex rel. Patterson , U. Slaughter-House Cases , 83 U. Green v. County Sch. Bradley , U. United States v. Guest , U. Breckenridge , U. Shelley v. Kraemer , U. See Jones v. Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School Dist. Program Community Power and Policy Partnerships. Podcast: Who Belongs? Search by keyword. The Public-Private Penumbra Modern readers may puzzle at how a state ordinance interfering so baldly into the affairs of private companies could be upheld, especially when the Civil Rights Act of was held unconstitutional for requiring the opposite of so-called public facilities.
For example, new and enduring patterns of race-based hatred and violence, pervasive implicit biases against Blacks, the continued maintenance of White supremacy, and patterns of judicial interference and overreach: 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 beneficent purposes which the people of the United States had in view when they adopted the recent amendments of the Constitution, by one of which the blacks of this country were made citizens of the United States and of the States in which they respectively reside, and whose privileges and immunities, as citizens, the States are forbidden to abridge.
Whiteness and Gradients of Color One of the ironies of Plessy v. Google Scholar. Anderson , Elizabeth S. The Imperative of Integration. Princeton, N. Berry , Mary Frances.
Black , Charles L. New Haven, Conn. Friendly , Henry. Gordon , James W. Accessed September 2, Green , Preston C. Harris , Cheryl I. Johnson , Rucker. Cambridge, Mass.
King , Gilbert. King , Martin Luther , Jr. Krysan , Maria , and Kyle Crowder. New York : Russell Sage Foundation. Liu , Goodwin. Check local listings. Reproduction courtesy of the Library of Congress Plessy v. Ferguson In Plessy v. Ferguson , the Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of a Louisiana law passed in "providing for separate railway carriages for the white and colored races. Homer Plessy, the plaintiff in the case, was seven-eighths white and one-eighth black, and had the appearance of a white man.
Duly arrested and imprisoned, Plessy was brought to trial in a New Orleans court and convicted of violating the law. He then filed a petition against the judge in that trial, Hon. Attorney General Cunningham argued that the law merely made a distinction between blacks and whites, but did not necessarily treat blacks as inferiors, since theoretically the law provided for "separate but equal" railroad car accommodations.
Further, the Court endorsed the "separate but equal" doctrine, ignoring the fact that blacks had practically no power to make sure that their "separate" facilities were really "equal" to those of whites.
In the years to come, black railroad cars, schools and other facilities were rarely as good as those of whites. Only Justice Harlan dissented from the Court's decision. Harlan's dissent was an uncannily accurate prediction of Plessy 's effect:. It was not until the s and the s that the Supreme Court began to reverse Plessy. In the landmark case of Brown v.
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