 | William M. Wiecek - History - 2001 - 300 pages
...weighing coal, but it was potent enough to enable states to impose universal racial degradation. Such laws "do not necessarily imply the inferiority of either race to the other." To those blacks who had the temerity to object to such degradation. Brown noted that "it is not by... | |
 | John Denvir - Law - 2001 - 174 pages
...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." Brown then proceeded to ridicule Plessy's argument that state-supported racial segregation "stamps... | |
 | T. Alexander Aleinikoff - Law - 2002 - 332 pages
...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. . . If the two races are to meet upon terms of social equality it must be the result of natural affinities,... | |
 | Brook Thomas - Law and literature - 2002 - 424 pages
...abolish distinctions based on color, or to enforce social, as distinguished from political equality, or a commingling of the two races upon terms unsatisfactory to either" (Plessy 44). Political equality before the law is quite different from social equality. Political equality... | |
 | Julie Kailin - Education - 2002 - 268 pages
...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." In 1954, the case of Brown i'. Board of Education of lopeka, Kansas barred the de jure segregation... | |
 | Charlene Gilbert, Quinn Eli - Social Science - 2002 - 240 pages
...abolish distinctions based on color, or to enforce social, as distinguished from political equalitv, or a commingling of the two races upon terms unsatisfactory to either." Whereas Jim Crow laws had appeared intermittently throughout the South in the years before Plessy v.... | |
 | Melba J. Duncan - History - 2003 - 324 pages
...Accommodations Laws permitting, and even requiring, [the races'] separation in places where they are likely to be brought into contact do not necessarily imply...generally, if not universally, recognized as within the competence of the state legislatures.... If one race be inferior to the other socially, the Constitution... | |
 | James A. Curry, Richard B. Riley, Richard M. Battistoni - Law - 2003 - 660 pages
...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. "Social" inequalities such as those represented in this Jim Crow law were beyond the purview of the... | |
 | Ronald H. Bayor - History - 2004 - 1032 pages
...abolish distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social, as distinguished from political, equality, or a commingling of the two races upon terms unsatisfactory...inferiority of either race to the other, and have been generallv, if not universally, recognized as within the competency of the state legislatures in the... | |
 | Elizabeth Sirimarco - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2005 - 162 pages
...abolish distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social, as distinguished from political, equality, or a commingling of the two races upon terms unsatisfactory...necessarily imply the inferiority of either race. We consider the underlying fallacy of the plaintiff's [Plessy's] argument to consist in the assumption... | |
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The object of the [fourteenth] 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... 
