Long-Term Issues
Tensions between whites and blacks had been present long before the actual case. Those tensions lead to significant problems, making Southerners upset because they felt vulnerable to a race that they had previously believed to be below them.
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"Well might the President demand, as he does demand in his message, 'equal and exact justice to all men.' That is precisely what is proposed to be accomplished.”
Republican John Bingham, "The Father of the 14th Amendment"-1866
With the addition of the 14th amendment, many whites became frustrated that a race they believed were below them were now equal in the eyes of the law.
"The Civil Rights Act was rarely enforced and was eventually overturned by a Supreme Court decision in 1883."
-Richard Wormser, the author of The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
-Richard Wormser, the author of The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow