...schools, and other public places. Plessy justified this decision by declaring it a "fallacy" to assume "that the enforced separation of the two races stamps the colored race with a badge of inferiority." The authors of the 7-1 decision further declared that they could "not accept [the] propositionfs] ....

...legally compelled segregation made minorities feel inferior, that result was not the fault of the law, but "solely because the colored race chooses to put that construction upon it." 163 US 537 (1896), 551. The Salvatierra court, Martinez notes, remained "oblivious to such concerns."...

...white, and colored races. " Justice Henry Billings Brown delivered the majority opinion. He wrote: "We consider the underlying fallacy of the plaintiff's...colored race chooses to put that construction upon it. " MR. JUSTICE BROWN . . . DELIVERED THE OPINION OF THE COURT. . . . The constitutionality of this...

...majority opinion, Justice Henry Brown wrote, "We consider the underlying fallacy of the plaintiffs argument to consist in the assumption that the enforced...colored race chooses to put that construction upon it." The problem with this fine notion, of course, was that every facet of life in the South was increasingly...

...two races in public conveyances is unreasonable." The Court discounted as "fallacy" Plessy's claim that "the enforced separation of the two races stamps...colored race chooses to put that construction upon it." Again a lone dissenter, Justice Harlan wrote an opinion that did not convince his peers but would...

...three conclusions on its way to the doctrine of separate but equal. First, it was a "fallacy" to assume "that the enforced separation of the two races stamps the colored race with a badge of inferiority." Second, the Court (and by implication, the nation) "could not accept the proposition that social prejudices...

...that continued to haunt black lives. He also devalued black American frustrations, angers, and fears: We consider the underlying fallacy of the plaintiff's...colored race chooses to put that construction upon it. Further, showing an insensitivity about black living conditions and the sense of abandonment blacks...

...constitutionality of which does not seem to have been questioned, or the corresponding acts of state legislatures. e had made so rich a freight As chocolate, dust gold,...Did rot maids' teeth & spoil their handsome faces. it. The argument necessarily assumes that if, as has been more than once the case, and is not unlikely...

...imply the inferiority of either race. We consider the underlying fallacy of the plaintiff's [Plessy's] argument to consist in the assumption that the enforced...colored race chooses to put that construction upon it. . . . The argument also assumes that social prejudices may be overcome by legislation, and that...

...have infused our history.52 The "underlying fallacy" of Plessy's argument, Justice Brown observed, was "the assumption that the enforced separation of the...colored race chooses to put that construction upon it. . . ."53 In other words, racism is a psychological construct by the victims, not the perpetrators:...