Legal Cases: III

I. Era of Jim Crow

A. Gong Lum v. Rice (1927)

B. Mendez v. Westminster (1947)

II. NAACP legal strategy

A. v. Civil rights protests

B. Equalization strategy

C. Anti-segregation strategy

III. Brown v. Board of Education

(1954)

A. Plaintiff's argument (285)

B. 14th Amendment's intention (285)

C. Living constitution

D. Role of education (286)

E. Intangible factors (286-7)

F. Separate is unequal (287)

IV. Brown v. Plessy

A. Undoes effect

B. Not on legal precedent, but evidence

concerning reasonableness

C. New evidence (291-2, fn. 11)

D. Role of language:

"generates" (287)

V. Post-Brown

A. How enforce?

"All deliberate speed"

B. Not "color-blind"

VI. Affirmative action

A. Regents of Univ. of Calif.

v. Bakke (1978)

B. Paradox of affirmative

Action

C. Proposition 209

D. Double meaning of

Color-blind

"In order to get beyond racism,

we first must take account of

race. And in order to treat

some people equally, we must

treat them differently"

(Justice Blackmun).