PSC 2302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Equal Protection Clause, Jim Crow Laws, Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution
28 Oct 2017
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Race- the legacy of plessy and school desegregation. Result of plessy - further names the 14th amendment beyond civil rights cases, enables state discrimination. > review: in plessy, court says: separate but equal does not violate the equal protection. > proliferation of jim crow laws -> states requiring racial segregation. Separate law school facilities at ut were not equal (court looks at both tangible and the. Social inequality is beyond the power of the 14th intangible) Grants hope that court may look at segregation on its own. Hoping to directly challenge plessy, case also looks at progress in the nation. Acknowledges limits of historical analysis - times have changed; education is different not eat that those writing had education in mind (primary, secondary, private education, etc) Use of data from psychological study (doll studies ) to help argument children given doll with light or dark skins and told to describe the dolls"s characteristic and personality.
