...was involved. Brown, however, saw no discrimination, saying that the amendment "could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color,...political, equality, or a commingling of the two races on terms unsatisfactory to either." Calling fallacious "the assumption that the enforced separation...

...absolute equality of the two races before the law. but in the nature of things it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color....distinguished from political equality. or a commingling of the races terms unsatisfactory to either. The Plessy decision set the precedent that "separate" facilities...

...Ferguson case, affirming the Southern premise that the purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment was not to "enforce social, as distinguished from political equality, or a commingling of the two races."82 The Negro had argued that social prejudices could be fought by legislative measures; but...

...scope of governmental powers. "In the nature of things" the Fourteenth Amendment could "not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color"...to "enforce social, as distinguished from political equality."34 Although Brown admitted that one group might be socially inferior to the other, he also...

...absolute equality of the two races before the law, but, in the nature of things, it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social, as distinguish distinguished from political equality, or a commingling of the two races upon terms unsatisfactory...

...blacks had "no rights which the white man was bound to respect,"50 and Plessy v. Ferguson's conclusion that the Fourteenth Amendment was not intended "to...distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social . . . equality ... of the two races."51 While the Brown lawyers were right to celebrate this remarkable...

...equality of the two races before the law," nonetheless "in the nature of things, it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color,...to enforce social, as distinguished from political, equality."48 Answering the argument that if a state can segregate people based on race or skin color,...

...protection requirements of the Fourteenth Amendment, "in the nature of things . . . could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color,...political equality, or a commingling of the two races unsatisfactory to either"— Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 US 537 (1896). 71. Pauli Murray, ed., States'...

...to give blacks a certain measure of equality as citizens of the country, but "it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color,...social, as distinguished from political, equality." The Supreme Court ruling, written by Justice Henry Billings Brown, continued: We cannot say that a...

...v. Ferguson became federal law, and these white men were not bound to "abolish distinctions based on color, or to enforce social, as distinguished from political, equality, or a commingling of the races upon terms unsatisfactory" to them.72 Nonetheless, the camera's unrelenting stare is returned...