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Western Kentucky University

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

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1997

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Under The Cover Of Apathy: The Struggle For Equality In Bowling Green, Kentucky, Shannon Shea Peterson Apr 1997

Under The Cover Of Apathy: The Struggle For Equality In Bowling Green, Kentucky, Shannon Shea Peterson

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

In the years surrounding the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson, many states passed Jim Crow laws to limit the rights of black citizens. Jim Crow laws and practices invaded nearly every facet of life in the South. Bowling Green, Kentucky, was no different. By the early twentieth century, it had a number of Jim Crow facilities and institutions, supported by custom and often times with the force of the law. At that time, Bowling Green was home to a thriving black community despite prejudice and inequality. Black children, for example, attended separate elementary schools in the …


One Lone Voice: John Marshall Harlah And The Constitutional Rights Of African Americans, Diana Jean Werkman Mar 1997

One Lone Voice: John Marshall Harlah And The Constitutional Rights Of African Americans, Diana Jean Werkman

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

John Marshall Harlan, a Kentuckian who served on the United States Supreme Court from 1877 to 1911, was often the only Justice who supported the civil and political rights of African Americans. His jurisprudence was interesting because it combined traditional elements of the Court's Gilded Age views and fundamental ideas of mid-twentieth-century judicial race philosophy. The events that reshaped Harian's race philosophy illustrate how he made the transition from slave owner to defender of individual rights. Significant to his judicial ideology was his interpretation of dual federalism and the intent of the framers of the Civil War Amendments. While the …