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Progressive Era Race Relations Cases In Their "Traditional" Context, Mark V. Tushnet
Progressive Era Race Relations Cases In Their "Traditional" Context, Mark V. Tushnet
Vanderbilt Law Review
The pioneering African-American historian Rayford Logan called the early years of the Progressive era the "nadir" of race relations in the United States. Historians and political scientists who study the Supreme Court generally agree that Supreme Court decisions are rarely substantially out of line with the kind of sustained national consensus regarding race relations that Logan described. Professors Bernstein and Karman point to popular culture, including the roaring success of D.W. Griffith's epic Birth of a Nation attacking Reconstruction and defending the Ku Klux Klan, and elite opinion such as the flourishing of scientific racism to demonstrate that there was …