The Mismeasure of man
- Society was all about hierachy.
- Since racism has around for a while, it was hard for a person in a low social status to be higher up
- scientists had attempted to prove that the various races of humans were different and could be ranked from high to low.
- The leading figure in American polygeny was the Swiss immigrant Louis Agassiz, who taught at Harvard University and came to believe that races were separate species after contact with black people in America.
- Morton assembled data about the size of skulls that he believed proved the concept of separate and inferior races.
- Bigger people have bigger brains, simply due to body size.
PvF
- The fourteenth amendment didn’t allow african-americans protection.
- Dred Scott denies citizenship to both free and enslaved African American citizens.
- To improve Plessy’s chances for victory, Tourgée purposely delayed moving the case forward, hoping for changes in the Court’s makeup and a more favorable political climate.
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