 | Alexander Tsesis - Law - 2004 - 229 pages
...in the postwar South. In fact, to Brown a law "permitting, or even requiring, [racial segregation] in places where they are liable to be brought into...imply the inferiority of either race to the other. " Justice Brown was remiss in addressing the Southern cultural baggage that continued to haunt black... | |
 | Edward Ashbee - Political Science - 2004 - 332 pages
...Civil War. declared in Plessy v. Ferguson that the segregation laws were a matter for the states. They 'have been generally, if not universally recognized as within the competency of state legislatures in the exercise of their police powers' (Tindall and Shi 1989:476). It was 58 years... | |
 | Derrick Bell - Law - 2004 - 248 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." Segregation laws were widespread in the dozen or so years before the Plessy decision. Now, with the... | |
 | Jamin B. Raskin - Political questions and judicial power - 2004 - 316 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. 133. See Shaw, 509 US at 641-42, 657. 134. See, eg, Holder v. Hall, 512 US 874, 905-6 (1994). 135.... | |
 | Stephen M. Best - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 375 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" (Plessy, 544). "Legislation is powerless to eradicate racial instincts," he concluded, "or to abolish... | |
 | Grace Roegner Freedman, Princeton Review - History - 2005 - 312 pages
...of the strict legislation to protect the ozone layer (E) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1968 83. "Laws permitting, and even requiring, their separation...imply the inferiority of either race to the other. ..." The above passage was probably taken from which of the following Supreme Court rulings? (A) Brown... | |
 | Mathias Hildebrandt - Political Science - 2005 - 556 pages
...abolish distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social, äs distinguished from political equality, or a commingling of the two races upon terms unsatisfactory to either." Obwohl diese Entscheidung die Rassenbeziehungen in den USA für mehr als ein halbes Jahrhundert bestimmte,... | |
 | Herman Cain - Political Science - 2005 - 241 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." The USSC decision in Plessy was not unanimous. Justice John Marshall Harlan, who ultimately wrote the... | |
 | Donald A. Ritchie - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2006 - 271 pages
...v. Ferguson, declared this act unconstitutional and upheld racial segregation. The Court ruled that "laws permitting, and even requiring their separation...imply the inferiority of either race to the other. " Although segregationists never had the votes in Congress to write segregation into national law,... | |
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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... 
