Therefore, we hold that the plaintiffs and others similarly situated for whom the actions have been brought are, by reason of the segregation complained of, deprived of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment (Brown 1954, 488, 495). Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. In the Brown case, the Supreme Court of Delaware adhered to that doctrine, but ordered that the plaintiffs be admitted to the white schools because of their superiority to the Negro schools …. Ferguson with another case, specifically the Brown, et al. It took almost 60 years for the Supreme Court of the United States to overturn Plessy v. The ruling added the ironic claim that “If one race be inferior to the other socially, the Constitution of the United States cannot put them upon the same plane.” ( Plessy v. The Supreme Court ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment did not, and could not, require the elimination of all social or other distinctions based on race. Tourgée, correctly argued that the 1890 Separate Car Act was based on the evolutionary belief in the inferiority of African Americans compared to the evolutionary superiority of “Whites.” The Court summarized the case as follows, writing the petitioner was seven eighths Caucasian and one eighth African blood that the mixture of colored blood was not discernible in him, and that he was entitled to every right, privilege and immunity secured to citizens of the United States of the white race and that, upon such theory, he took possession of a vacant seat in a coach where passengers of the white race were accommodated, and was ordered by the conductor to vacate said coach and take a seat in another assigned to persons of the colored race, and having refused to comply with such demand he was forcibly ejected with the aid of a police officer, and imprisoned in the parish jail to answer a charge of having violated the above act ( Plessy v. It was for this reason he was thought to be an excellent candidate to challenge the existing racist law. Plessy was an octoroon, a person seven-eighths “white” and a mere one-eighth “black,” who physically appeared fully Caucasian. The 1890 Act required “equal, but separate” train car accommodations for “white” and “non-white” passengers based on the superior-inferior race evolutionary belief.

537 (1896)) was designed to challenge racists laws by deliberately violating Louisiana’s Separate Car Act of 1890, also known as The Withdraw Car Act (Act 111). In contrast to this biblical doctrine, laws in the United States called Jim Crow statutes were based on racial inferiority belief that rejected this scriptural teaching. The Scriptures have consistently taught that all men are descendants of the first couple, Adam and Eve thus all men are brothers. Sadly, the courts and even the prevailing scientific thought of that time, and until recently, asserted that “Negroes” were an inferior “race,” one less-evolved than the Caucasian “race.” Less-Evolved Evolutionary Position Upheld In short, the conclusion that there were “beings of an inferior order and altogether unfit to associate with the white race” was a view that “could not be squared with the descent of humanity from Adam and Eve racism, put simply, was a rejection of the Bible’s authority” (Guyatt 2016, 27).

This truth was replaced by human evolution beliefs that were widely held even before Darwin’s book, On the Origin of Species, was released in 1859 (Guyatt 2016, 27). The case was heavily influenced by the rejection of the Genesis teaching that all men were descended from the first human couple. This opinion was at that time fixed and universal in the civilized portion of the white race (Taney 1857). He was bought and sold and treated as an ordinary article of merchandise and traffic whenever a profit could be made by it. In this case, the Court ruled that “Negroes” were, for more than a century, regarded as beings of an inferior order and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect and that the Negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit. 393 (1857), which held that “black” people were not intended to be included as citizens under the Constitution and therefore could claim none of the rights and privileges secured to citizens of the United States. Of the 141 cases reversed by the US Supreme Court, among the worst Supreme Court decisions include Dred Scott v.

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