HW 2/13

PVF

William J Cruikshank was in a group known as White League where they killed 69-100 blacks in Louisiana.

A campaigning was held to keep blacks from being a part of political processes.

The important parts of the 13th and 14th amendments were stressed during the above situation.

This occurred obviously during the time of segregation down south.

In Plessy’s argument on page 29, Louisiana argued that it’s law was a constitutionally mandated use of the state’s police powers.

According to the book, “For Justice Harlan, the majority decision violated rather than affirmed the constitution.”

TMM

In this part of Mismeasure of Man, the author is emphasizing how men are in civilized states.

On page 66, it states “blacks need not participate in the “equality of man”.

Louis Agassiz was an American theorist. Later became the leading spokesman for polygeny in America.

He(Agassiz) stood for human races in most of his arguments.

According to the essay Agassiz’s argument was The theory o f polygeny
does not constitute an attack upon the scriptural doctrine o f human
unity. Men are bound by a common structure and sympathy , even though races were created as separate species”.

Agassiz concludes that “legal freedom awarded to slaves in manumission must spur the enforcement of rigid social separation among races.”