Legal Cases: Lecture II
I. Review
II. Booker T. Washington
(1895)
A.
Occasion/Audience
B.
To African Americans
1. Start at
bottom; work to top
2. “Dignify
and glorify common labor” (122)
3. Become
useful citizen (123)
4. Economic,
not political opportunity (124)
C.
To white Southerner
1. Employ
African Americans, not foreigners (122)
2. A patient,
faithful, devoted labor force (122)
3. No fear of
social equality (124)
D.
Prosperous New South
E.
Metaphor of hand (122)
III. W. E. B. Du Bois (1897)
A.
Audience
B.
1.Spiritual as well as economic
2. Souls v. hands
C. Metaphor of the Veil (142)
D.
Double consciousness (143)
IV. Plessy v.
A.
Majority opinion
1. Is separate but equal constitutional?
2. 13th Amendment (42-43)
3. 14th Amendment
a. Intention (44)
b. Reasonable (50)
c. Logical fallacy (50)
B.
Harlan's dissent
1. 13th Amendment
"badges of servitude"
(59)
2. 14th Amendment
a. Intention (54-5)
b. Not reasonable, but constitutional:
"color-blind" (57)
c. Not logic, but history:
"thin
disguise" (59):