We consider the underlying fallacy of the plaintiff’s argument to consist in the assumption that the enforced separation of the two race stamps the colored race with a badge of inferiority. Such an argument was considered in 1896 when Plessy was decided, but Brown simply brushed it off as a construct of the black race: Were it not for the sense that one group is inferior to the other, there would be no basis–and I am not granting that this is a rational basis–for such segregation. The fact that it is enforced, that it is legal, I think, has more importance than the mere fact of segregation by itself does because this gives legal and official sanction to a policy which is inevitably interpreted by both white people and by Negroes as denoting the inferiority of the Negro group. Board of Education case in Topeka, pointed out quite succinctly the problems with such reasoning: Louisa Holt, in her testimony for the Brown v. How separation does not imply inferiority when it is one race insisting upon the separation at the expense of the other race is something Justice Brown would not admit. Laws permitting, or even requiring, separation in places where are to be brought into contact do not necessarily imply the inferiority of either race to the other, and have been generally, if not universally, recognized as within the competency of the state legislatures in the exercise of their police power. Yet Justice Brown did write it, and like so many Americans to follow him, he didn’t see segregation as objectionable at all: The separate but equal history that followed it might not have had a legal foot upon which to stand.
To my mind it is easy to see such words as one of the most tragic sentences in American history. With a quick stroke of the pen, Justice Brown separated political equality and social equality, something the Fourteenth Amendment never did.
The object of the amendment was undoubtedly to enforce the absolute equality of the two races before the law, but in the nature of things it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social, as distinguished from political equality, or a commingling of the two races upon terms unsatisfactory to either. One of the most rank sentences in Justice Brown’s Plessy opinion was this: Ferguson was disturbing, and I plan to pull some of the excerpts I read in Simple Justice into my American Literature classes next year. Reading the specifics of Supreme Court cases like Plessy v. We as Americans are in debt to people like Houston, people who sacrificed their personal lives for a cause only posterity would fully enjoy.Ĭharles Houston, whose extremely high standards as dean of the law school at Howard University ultimately changed America's history.
I found the story of Charles Houston’s life and work in famous cases and at Howard University particularly inspiring, such that if I were in high school today and had to pick a topic for a speech or paper, his name would top the list.
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Kluger has a definite opinion about how one should approach and interpret law, and while mine would probably differ from his if I were to learn more about the subject, I was in enough agreement with him, particularly as it regarded the rights of black Americans to full equality, to enjoy the book thoroughly.
I was not impressed by the 800 pages, recalling instantly Ambrose Bierce’s quip about the covers of a book being too far apart, and in truth I think the book could have been shorter, but that didn’t stop me from reading it all (and enjoying most of it). After watching The Help, my interest in civil rights was rekindled (about half of the projects I did in high school tied into civil rights) and I trotted down to the library to pick up Richard Kluger’s history of the Brown v. With the Tormentor in hand, the last thing they'll see is your Game Face! Dual triggers, an adjustable buttstock and plenty of picatinny accessory rails make this one of the most adaptable airsoft guns in your arsenal.A little while back I read Simple Justice, a book a college buddy (now history professor) recommended years ago that I read. Double your firepower when you head into battle with the GFRS Tormentor combination rifle and shotgun! The M4-style upper is a full or semi-auto AEG shooting up to 300 fps (.20g) while the spring powered shotgun lower shoots up to 295 fps (.20g).
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