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How did the Supreme Court cases of 1883 (Civil Rights Cases) and 1896 (Plessy v. Ferguson) allow for the rise of the Jim Crow South with its legal racial discrimination and segregation? Discuss John Marshall Harlan’s reasoning in his dissents for each case. (In other
words, why did Harlan disagree with the majority? Why did he see both majority decisions as
constitutionally wrong?)
The Supreme Court in 1883 interpreted the Constitution (including the 14
th
amendment) as not really giving Congress the ability to create laws ensuring civil rights for all, nor require states to make laws that ensured equality before the law. In hindsight, most legal scholars and historians (today) have seen the majority decision in both cases as being "wrongly decided," and credit Justice John Marshall Harlan's dissents as the correct reading of the law. Harlan didn’t agree with
the discusses that was made for Civil Rights because he feels as if that African Americans didn’t establish enough rights to be able to go out in public and feels as if they have rights over everything just because a law was passed. For an example in the article Mr. Harlan states “My brethren say that when a man has emerged from slavery and by the aid of beneficent legislation has shaken off the inseparable concomitants of the state, there must be some stage in the progress
of elevation when he takes the rank of a mere citizen and ceases to be the special favorite of laws, and when his rights as a citizen, or a man, are to be protected”.
2)
In the Florida Humanities Council video, Professor Revels and Professor Taylor discuss the Lost Cause myth and the way it rewrote history. Based on their discussion, explain what the
Lost Cause myth was and why the South felt the need to create it. How do we know that it was a myth?
The Lost Cause Myth was an ideal if you will of what the war have been and why the Southerners had fault for their rights. The Southerners felt as if they needed to win the fight to defend their civil rights and they felt as if they were fighting for the right cause and they were fighting for Honor sakes. The fight was not about slavery because they loved what they were as faithful and loving servants who didn’t want their freedom, so the argue was only about having their state rights but Americans didn’t agree so it become an institution to Southerners to make that day as memory for the lost soldiers. Most importantly, The Southerners felt the need to create The Lost Cause Myth because it
wasn’t about the monuments of the deaths but to create and dedicate the fighting spirits idea and the common mans who were the old soldiers were also good soldiers.
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