PvF

• Government officials a part of the widespread system of repression
• Albion Tourgee was the lawyer for Homer Plessy and was an advocate for equality for African Americans
• The act that Plessy was arrested for was planned/staged so it could be challenged all the way up to the Supreme Court in hopes of eliminating separate but equal laws
• Reconstruction after the civil war had two goals to rebuild physical structures that were destroyed during the war and to reform southern society
• President Johnson was from the south and vetoed every bill congress passed to give African Americans more freedoms and thus congress went around him
• Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the 14^th amendment were very controversial because it was seen as the federal government taking power away from the states
• The election of 1868 and the years after reminds me of what is going on in today’s political/social environment
• The radical reconstruction by congress was a failure in every way possible
• The slaughter-house cases were ruled on by the supreme court and end up restricting the scope of the civil rights act of 1866 and the 14^th amendment

TMM

• Old myth principle that an individual’s worth can be assigned by their intelligence
• Testing may be measuring the size of their head or psychological testing
• In the 1920s some dude proposed that individuals can be classified based on IQ scores and back up this reasoning with bad/non-existing data
• The main argument is that science is not pure fact but is influenced and has been influenced by the culture throughout history
• Craniometry (the measure of intelligence based on skull size) was big in the 19^th century and intelligence testing (IQ) was big in the 20^th century (both were/are based on faulty science)