How can the role of the Supreme Court in the 1890s, with respect to African American civil rights in the South, best be described, and what is a key ruling from that decade that illustrates that tendency? How did the role of the Court change in much later decades, and what is an example of a case that illustrates that change?

How can the role of the Supreme Court in the 1890s, with respect to African American civil rights in the South, best be described, and what is a key ruling from that decade that illustrates that tendency? How did the role of the Court change in much later decades, and what is an example of a case that illustrates that change?