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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/ 

       Today in class we had a group presentation that covered many topics during the Harlem Renaissance. Each team member covered a certain topic during the time period. The topic or group I chose to cover is the Congress of Racial Equality also known as C.O.R.E.  C.O.R.E was a group of inneracial students founded in 1942 at the University of Chicago campus. The group started off with four founding fathers. The founding fathers were James Farmer, Georger Houser, Bayard Rustin, and Bernice Fischer. Gandhi, the Indian lawyer and biggest political figure in history, is the group's biggest influencer. Gandhi was known for his peaceful protests which C.O.R.E. would follow. For instance, they would promote sit-ins and non-violent forms of protest to get their word spread. The goal was to integrate into Chicago restaurants and businesses. In 1955, C.O.R.E traveled to the south and promoted even more non-violence training to the people in need. The group quickly became...

 Five years ago on the day of June 17th, 2015, a 21 year old opened fire on a church. The terroristic attack was motivated through racism. The shooting opened the eyes to many people about the the racism that still exists today in the United States.  The Reconstruction Era was a time after the Civil war where segregation and racism occurred. The Union won the war and ended slavery, however, it was not the end for the blacks freedom. The African American people had to fight for decades to finally get their equality they have received today in the present time. The 2015 shooting was an experience that showed the fight for inequality was not over.  The African American community was left with no money or jobs. The jobs they were only available sometimes, so many people were left without work.  As well as being short of jobs African Americans and the black community needed to deal with the KKK and Jim Crow laws. The KKK or Ku Klux Klan was a hate group that fought to cau...

Today we had a group hold a mock trial fighting the case of Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka. This trial occurred in Kansas during the year of 1954. One side fought the segregation of the schools, while the other group fought to end segregation in schools. The students used different ways to fight their point whether it was through religion, ethics, or morals.  This case started in 1951, when a school in Topeka Kansas, refused to let African American Oliver Brown into the academic building. She was then forced to take a bus to a school much further away, to a segregated school district for Black children only. The Brown family and 12 others were in the same situation. They decided to create a class action lawsuit in the U.S. federal court versus the Topeka Board of education. The court decided that the segregation of the children was unconstitutional and the segregation in the school district would stop. This overruled another popular case Plessy V. Fergusson, which called for...

  Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. Abraham Lincoln is probably known as one of the biggest Anti-Slavery advocates in the 1860’s. There is however, a little bit of a common misunderstanding held by everyone. Lincoln was not considered an abolitionist. Abe was on that believed that slavery was morally wrong and should not be allowed. But one thing stood in his way and that was the constitution. The founding fathers when writing the constitution did not mention slavery once and beat around the bush of the idea.  Lincoln did similar actions while addressing the issue. In a three hour speech in Peoria, Illinois, Lincoln addressed his moral, legal, and economic opposition to slavery. He later admitted he did not know how to deal with the system during the current political system. Abolitionists on the other hand had a plan and were ready to complete it. They believed it should immediately be abolished and all slaves should be free. They unlike Lincoln did...

  Today in class we covered the historical Supreme Court case of State V. Mann. One group of students fought for the state of North Carolina and a slave named Lydia, while the other side fought on the side of slave owner John Mann. The trial was fought through different viewpoints like economics, religion, ethics, history, norms, laws, as well as many other points. In 1829, Elizabeth Jones owned a slave that went by the name of Lydia. Lydia was then sent to fellow slave owner John Mann in Chowan County to work. She was getting beat and whipped by Mann and she felt like she had enough of it. She decided to try to run from Mann. Mann decided to shoot Lydia in the back with a gun. Mann was then fined by the state of North Carolina $10. Mann believed he should not have to pay this fine since she is only a slave. He took it to court and in the end won the case. Mann was given his money back by the state. The conclusion of the case stated that slave owners hold all power over slaves as t...

  Amistad Mutiny was a slave rebellion including 53 slaves, that occurred on July 2nd, 1839. This rebellion took place on the ship Amistad off the coast of Cuba causing many legal problems during the American abolition movement. The uprising slaves killed the captain and cook on the boat, however, they spared the Spanish navigator so they could sail back home to Sierra Leone.  Two months later, the ship was seized by the United States Navy. The Amistad was then towed and taken back to New London where the mutineers were held in jail. The Spanish embassy demanded them back leading to a trial to be held in 1840. New England abolitionist Lewis Tappan was siding for the African captures and U.S government took on the pro-slavery side. The judge of the case, Andrew Judson, ruled the slaves on the ship as victims of kidnapping. The Supreme court upheld the lower court and private and missionary societies donations helped the surviving African Americans home. Only thirty five of the ...

       Slavery has been a dividing factor of the United States and people for hundreds to thousands of years. Not only did slavery spark the Civil War in America, but led to multiple opposing views on this toxic act. Many political figures also had opposing views on slavery. For example, Abraham Lincoln, our president from 1861 to 1865, worked to abolish slavery in America. There were other leaders, including Andrew Jackson, who was pro-slavery.  Andrew Jackson was the 7th president of the United States. Jackson was born on March 15 1767, growing up in South Carolina. He grew up in the south surrounded by a culture consisting of many plantations. His father actually raised Jackson on a plantation. President Jackson actually owned as many as 161 slaves at one point in his life. He used these slaves to his advantage, by building up wealth and even taking some to the White House. Unlike northern abolitionists, Jackson fell victim to Pro-slavery views. This was ...

For many years slavery was the dividing factor of the United States acting as a divider between many people. For 70 years America was stuck in a civil war between those who are pro slavery, and those against it. Many people pointed to religious works that would either support or refute slavery. The Bible was a major piece of work many Christians used to argue their points. Today the Bible will be shown in the ways it was against slavery or for slavery.  The Bible has been known to condemn slavery today for many obvious , and also was against it hundreds to thousands of years in the past. Throughout the bible there are many example and quotes that prove slavery should be condemned. One of the most iconic quotes against slavery comes from the chapter of Exodus 21:16. The reading states, “Whoever steals a man and sells him, and anyone found in possession of him, shall be put to death.” According to this quote in the bible it is clear that Chrisiantiy was against slavery. The reading s...

The Supreme court is a group of 9 prestigious judges all chosen by the president of the United States. As power goes, the Supreme Court is under the three branches of the government. Those 3 groups are the Judicial, Legislative, and Executive branches. Each week these judges are sent hundreds to even thousands of petitions. The cases are then distributed to the different justices. The supreme court is obviously divided and will be for many years to come. However, this does not mean the cases are rigged or biased. During review, the justices will read through the petitions with an open mind. Keep in mind only 2 percent of the petitions are actually sent to the Supreme court, so many of the cases sent in, are declined. After reading, the judges then must come together and make an agreement on whether or not the case shall be taken to the court. Once the case is taken to the Supreme Court, both of the sides are given 30 minutes to speak to the judges and respond to any questions the ju...