POLSCI 319 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Fifteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Thirteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution

• School: U of M
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 319
• Professor: Pamela Brandwein

Document Summary

The scope of the equal protections clause in the 14th amendment is different. This is when there is an actual political abandonment of the blacks and a judicial push to consolidate that. That abandonment helps lead to jim crow. In the conventional story, plessy is the capstone of abandonment. Plessy is the beginning of the abandonment. Blacks were excluded from the grand jury. Says jurors have to be qualified voters". Lets local registrars decide who is qualified. They get to administer good understanding" clause. Wrong is possible but not necessarily there. Brings a ton of evidence that registrars are being racist. Booker t washington funds and helps this case. They say if we rule for you, we will become a party to a sham". They dismiss the state neglect doctrine, sorta. There is a state action requirement in the 15th amendment. They get rid of the 15th amendment loophole that was used. Workers contracted with the owner of a sawmill.