Add to ORKG"The destinies of the two races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under the sanction of law," declared Justice Harlan in his ringing dissent to Plessy v. Ferguson. Yet in 1896, his vision of a "colorblind" America was marred by centuries of racism and prejudice. Similarly, despite lofty ideals, the Supreme Court's historical treatment of African Americans in the United States stands in sharp contrast to the declaration that all are created equal. "Other racial injustices in this nation's history are grave, but are different in part because the injuries were less fundamentally legal in nature." Nevertheles...
This paper explores the duality of American law and American culture in the context of American Slav...
Homer A. Plessy challenged an 1890 Louisiana Law that required separate train cars for Black America...
INTRODUCTION The recent concurrence of Justice Ginsburg in Grutter v. Bollinger, and her dissent in ...
The courts must bear a heavy share of the burden of American racism. An outpouring of historical sch...
In the face of the Nixon-Reagan counterrevolution against liberal decisions of the Warren Court, som...
In 1899, three years after the “separate but equal” decision of Plessy v. Ferguson, the U. S. Suprem...
Scarcely ten years ago the Supreme Court of the United States sounded the death knell for segregatio...
for Racial Reform (Bell, 2004) examines the struggles for equality in the United States from the Sup...
In the landmark case of Plessy v. Ferguson decided in 1896, the Supreme Court of the United States g...
The first Justice John Marshall Harlan’s status as one of the greatest Supreme Court Justices in Ame...
When the first Justice John Marshall Harlan announced in 1899 in the case of Cumming v. Richmond Co...
The concept of color-blindness has long elicited much debate over its precise meaning and the role i...
In the United States, following the case of Brown v. Board of Education (1954), federal judges with ...
In Part I of the Article, I examine early cases in which the Court described segregation as a form o...
From the late nineteenth into the mid-twentieth century, civil rights reformers fought, with little ...
This paper explores the duality of American law and American culture in the context of American Slav...
Homer A. Plessy challenged an 1890 Louisiana Law that required separate train cars for Black America...
INTRODUCTION The recent concurrence of Justice Ginsburg in Grutter v. Bollinger, and her dissent in ...
The courts must bear a heavy share of the burden of American racism. An outpouring of historical sch...
In the face of the Nixon-Reagan counterrevolution against liberal decisions of the Warren Court, som...
In 1899, three years after the “separate but equal” decision of Plessy v. Ferguson, the U. S. Suprem...
Scarcely ten years ago the Supreme Court of the United States sounded the death knell for segregatio...
for Racial Reform (Bell, 2004) examines the struggles for equality in the United States from the Sup...
In the landmark case of Plessy v. Ferguson decided in 1896, the Supreme Court of the United States g...
The first Justice John Marshall Harlan’s status as one of the greatest Supreme Court Justices in Ame...
When the first Justice John Marshall Harlan announced in 1899 in the case of Cumming v. Richmond Co...
The concept of color-blindness has long elicited much debate over its precise meaning and the role i...
In the United States, following the case of Brown v. Board of Education (1954), federal judges with ...
In Part I of the Article, I examine early cases in which the Court described segregation as a form o...
From the late nineteenth into the mid-twentieth century, civil rights reformers fought, with little ...
This paper explores the duality of American law and American culture in the context of American Slav...
Homer A. Plessy challenged an 1890 Louisiana Law that required separate train cars for Black America...
INTRODUCTION The recent concurrence of Justice Ginsburg in Grutter v. Bollinger, and her dissent in ...
