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 Plessy V. Fergusson was a historic court case that created the idea of separate but equal. Justice Marshall Harlen wrote a dissent in a response to the case. This document just talked about how the justice disagreed with the majority ruling of the case. Harlan stated in the dissent that the United States Constitution is colorblind. He also claimed that there should not be a surperior ruling class of citizens. In his eyes everyone was equal. He believed it was unfair for the states to regulate citizens based off of just race.  One of the biggest points he makes in the dissent is the remark he made on freedom. He states that a country can not be known for it's freedom if not everyone is given the same rights. As a country if the United States want stories be known as the land of the free, everyone should be equal and given the same rights. Even if they are different races, everyone should be free.  I agree strongly with Justice Harlen because to be a strong nation we must ...

 During the last couple of weeks in class we watched many historical documentaries. Today's video talked about the Ku Klux Klan or the KKK in North Carolina. This group in North Carolina was named Klansville USA.  The leader of this North Carolina Klan was known as Bob Jones. The Klan started off as a couple of friends and grew to the thousands of people. Bob Jones grew up in Salisbury North Carolina and served in the Navy after he dropped out of High School. He was discharged after not saluting a black officer. Afterwards he jumped around from jobs.  The Klan first started going around pulling "pranks" on African Americans by going around and taunting them and causing horror in their lives. The Klan revived around the 1920's and called for 100% americanism. In 1925, 50,000 klansman gathered in Washington. Afterwards 4 million Americans claimed membership in the Klan. By the 1930's the Klan fell due to bad press.  In 1954 when the U.S claimed that schools should b...

   Today in class we watched a video that covered the historical March on Washington that occurred in the capitol of our nation. This march occurred during the 1960's right in the middle of many civil rights movements. The protests first started mostly in the Southern states where racism and segregation was a much larger problem than up north. The first protest occurred in 1955 in Montgomery Alabama. The protest sparked from the case of Rosa Parks where she refused to give up her seat to a while man on a bus. This initial protest lead to many more and started some violence. These protests kept occurring in the south and violence was repeated throughout.    Civil rights activist A. Phillip Randolph, stated that the marches were not causing and procession in the south and kept getting shut down. He believed that the march needed to be sent up north where the movement would be a national icon.   One of the...

      In this project we were to create a color scheme based off of a picture we had taken. I took this picture of this wheat field that bloomed a random red flower right in the middle of the green abyss. Afterwords, I took the three major colors from the picture and created a color scheme. The three colors I chose to use are red, green, and light blue.  In this task I chose to create a color swatch of all of the colors in the image. The colors on the far left are the three basic colors in the image. Afterwards, I went into indesign and created different tints on the images. The images on the far left have 100% tint. The images in the middle are much lower. The red middle is around 65 percent along with the others. The final colors in the final collums are the lowest tint. These tints created a light tint to every color.      The final part of the project consisted of me creating a name plate that was based off of the color schemes I created ...

  Today in class a mock trial of the case of Bakke v.s Board of Regents was held. This case occurred in the year of 1978 and was between Allan Bakker and the Board of Regents at the University of California. Bakke sued the University because the medical school left 16 seats of the 100 seats to anyone who is considered a minority. This could be anyone of Asian, African American, or anything other than white descent. Bakke was denied admissions to the school two times. In retaliation, or constitutionally, he decided to sue the school. He stated that what the school was doing was unconstitutional and racist. During this case, the Supreme Court ruled that the University of California, included quotas that were considered racist in it’s admissions process. However, this did not mean that race would not be considered in future admission processes. The court ruled that schools may consider race to allow more diversity in the school or specific program. The admissions however, should be as...

 Today in class there group read an article written by Professor Smith. In the article he discusses two popular ideas of Popular Constitutionalism and Non-Judicial Precedents. Popular Constitutionalism is the idea that the people of the nation have a role and can interpret the constitution and the amendments it holds. The judges although they are at the top of the totem pole should not be able to always rule over the people. The people should be able to make these interpretations as an American citizen.  Non Judicial Precedents are past judgements in the constitution in a non-judicial way. Non-Judicial people are able to persuade people much easier than those rules made by smaller courts in constitutional law. https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/178/ https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10811680.2014.860828 https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/vlr/vol61/iss3/1/