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To: nihil who wrote (41709)	6/24/1999 2:11:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

nihil, you surprise me. Your comment on the Warren Court seems to place you among its detractors: When the Warren court ruled, it ruled on what those dead white guys ought to have thought. Only demigods can know what other demigods ought to have thought. Perhaps I misunderstand you. Given your general views, I can't believe you support the demigods who came up with the following rulings (which the Warren Court overturned): In the Civil Rights Cases of 1883, the Supreme Court ruled that the protection of rights guaranteed by the 14th Amendment applied only to the states and not to individuals. Thus an 1875 act of Congress prohibiting discrimination against blacks in inns, public conveyances, theaters, and other public accommodations or amusements was declared unconstitutional because it was limiting private behavior rather than state behavior. In 1896 racial segregation in the American South was upheld by a decision of the United States Supreme Court. This landmark decision, Plessy v. Ferguson, arose when a railroad company refused to provide a sleeping car berth to a black train passenger. The Supreme Court ruled the railroad could segregate white sleeping car passengers from black sleeping car passengers, but the railroad had to provide sleeping accommodations for blacks that were equal to similar accommodations for whites. This decision promulgated for the first time the famous "separate but equal" doctrine. That doctrine was used extensively by southern states to justify racially segregated public schools, from kindergarten to graduate school, throughout all of Dixie. cc.colorado.edu