Module Two Discussion, Initial Response Due Thursday, 2/6

Thank you for sharing. I am in agreement with you on many points that you have written about here. What stuck out to me the most was how the Supreme Court rulings contributed to more Democrat southern state power and ultimately led to more segregation in the South. It allowed room for Jim Crow laws to occur and for discrimination to come about again more in the South. I wrote about the Plessy vs Ferguson case because I think the separate but equal precedent set the tone to allow segregation. In my opinion, it was a violation of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendment even through the Supreme Court ruled differently. Also, you are right that their rulings in the Colfax Massacre and the Civil Rights Act of 1875 created even more segregation. The Supreme Court, organizations that were violent like the KKK, and Redeemers all set back some of what the Reconstruction Period hoped to create for newly freed slaves and civil rights.