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Their Accomplices Wore Robes
How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial Caste System
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A magisterial new history of the role of the Supreme Court as an ally in implementing and preserving a racial caste system in America Their Accomplices Wore Robes takes readers from the Civil War era to the present and describes how the Supreme Courteven more than the presidency or Congressaligned with the enemies of Black progress to undermine the promise of the Constitutions Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments. The Reconstruction Amendmentswhich sought to abolish slavery, establish equal protection under the law, and protect voting rightsconverted the Constitution into a potent anti-caste document. But in the years since, the Supreme Court has refused to allow the amendments to fulfill that promise. Time and again, when petitioned to make the nations founding conceitthat all men are created equalreal for Black Americans, the nine black robes have chosen white supremacy over racial fairness. Their Accomplices Wore Robes brings to life dozens of cases and their rich casts of characterspetitioners, attorneys, justicesto explain how America arrived at this point and how society might arrive somewhere better, even as todays federal courts lurch rightward. In this groundbreaking grand history, Brando Simeo Starkey reveals a troubling and dark aspect of American history.
A magisterial new history of the role of the Supreme Court as an ally in implementing and preserving a racial caste system in America
Their Accomplices Wore Robes takes readers from the Civil War era to the present and describes how the Supreme Courteven more than the presidency or Congressaligned with the enemies of Black progress to undermine the promise of the Constitutions Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments.
The Reconstruction Amendmentswhich sought to abolish slavery, establish equal protection under the law, and protect voting rightsconverted the Constitution into a potent anti-caste document. But in the years since, the Supreme Court has refused to allow the amendments to fulfill that promise. Time and again, when petitioned to make the nations founding conceitthat all men are created equalreal for Black Americans, the nine black robes have chosen white supremacy over racial fairness.
Their Accomplices Wore Robes brings to life dozens of cases and their rich casts of characterspetitioners, attorneys, justicesto explain how America arrived at this point and how society might arrive somewhere better, even as todays federal courts lurch rightward. In this groundbreaking grand history, Brando Simeo Starkey reveals a troubling and dark aspect of American history.